Doctor of Letters, Stéphane Giocanti is the author of about fifteen books, in particular “A political history of literature” (Champ Flammarion, 2011). He is completing an essay on Mishima, to be published next year.
On November 25, 1970, the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima committed suicide by seppuku with his partner Morita, after attempting a desperate political coup at the headquarters of the Self-Defense Forces in Tokyo.
This event resounded worldwide: why could one of the greatest Japanese writers, several times selected for the Nobel Prize, adulated in his country, come to such an end?
Was this theater on his part, a
shinju
(love suicide), or a political act?
Hypotheses divide major biographers: while John Nathan sees it as the signature of a nihilist, Henry Scott-Stokes leans for political action - protesting against the subjugation to the United States of which the Japanese were guilty, in Mishima's eyes.
Read also:
Life for sale, an unpublished novel by Yukio Mishima, who died 50 years ago
For years the name
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