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Anonymous Sun Jul 16 21:48:18 2017 No.9766123 [Reply] [Original]

Should I read this or should I start somewhere else from Mishima ?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 21:51:56 2017 No.9766133 Confessions of a Mask is the starting point when it comes to Mishima.

Anonymous Sun Jul 16 23:51:58 2017 No.9766456

>>9766123
People tend to dump on "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" but I think it's a nice short introduction to Mishima. It's pretty bleak and LOTF-esque in places but it explores themes that you'll see in other Mishima works.

If you're feeling a little more ambitious try "Spring Snow".

Anonymous Mon Jul 17 00:00:22 2017 No.9766480

>>9766123
>Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Read this first. It's great.

Confessions and Sailor are also terrif. The order doesn't matter so much. Sailor is quite different than, but closer in tone to Temple, than is Confessions, which feels like a memoir.

All three will bring that dark cloud over your head that is peculiar to the author -- his brand, if you will, as much as Kafka's strangeness was *his* brand.

Prepare to enter the darkness that is Mishima.

Couldn't into Spring Snow.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 00:11:22 2017 No.9766510 >>9766480 The Sea of Fertility books are probably the least accessible Mishima novels but, at least in my opinion, some of the better ones.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 00:19:27 2017 No.9766537 >>9766123 Temple is his masterpiece in my opinion at least. It's one of the most aesthetically beautiful books I've read.

Anonymous Mon Jul 17 03:16:05 2017 No.9766975

>>9766510
That intrigues me. I remember reading Temple, Sailor, Confessions and Sun and Steel rather quickly, and buying the Sea of Fertility books with great expectations... and then coming to a sort of grinding halt. They just didn't work for me. It was kind of frustrating. Maybe someday.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 13:08:42 2017 No.9768402 File: 342 KB, 753x362, MishimaHotline.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Someone post the Mishima chart.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 13:35:00 2017 No.9768492 Why is Thirst for Love so underrated?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 20:16:42 2017 No.9770095 >>9768492 nobody ever talks about Forbidden Colors either

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 21:42:16 2017 No.9770396 Did he ever write any political writings? That's the part of him I'd like to research more.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 21:52:23 2017 No.9770429 >>9770396 Lol it's mashima everything he wrote is political m8 read between the lines my man

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