Sole e acciaio

a peek inside the head of the finest japanese writer of the 20th century- hint: he is fucking nuts.

There is a canon of authors who are Metal. H.P. Lovecraft is one of 'em. Tolkein, another. (To name but a couple.) I would include Mishima in that almighty canon. Mishima was that kid growing up, but instead of being born in a place and time where Metal existed, he was born and raised in 20's Japan. S Leggi tutto

2.5 stars. A tough read, which I may try again once I’ve read a little more of his work. The main thing I’ll take away from it, for now, is that it doesn’t pay to neglect the body in favour of the mind, or to lose oneself to introspection, forgetting the importance of sensory experience and looking o Leggi tutto

4.5 with the .5 being for "the blue sky was flecked with the semen-white of clouds"

Delom motivaciona knjiga o metafizici teretane, delom idejno pismo o planovima za sopstveno samoubistvo; jedan od važnijih tekstova u poslednjoj fazi Mišiminog književnog stvaralaštva i važna cigla u građenju mitologije vezane za njegov sepuku u zgradi Ministarstva odbrane. „Sunce i čelik” je žanrovs Leggi tutto

100 pages of uninterrupted, dense, metaphysical introspection about the relationship between words, abstractions, symbols, and the body. Completely humorless, Mishima is a nerdy writer that discovered fitness later in his life, compares airplanes to penises and clouds to sperm, and is absorbed by th Leggi tutto

Yukio Mishima, in his enigmatic work Sun and Steel , reveals his inner most contemplations of life, death, and beyond. This work, the elucidations of a literary genius and modern day samurai, is not easy to comprehend, especially if one has not read some of his previous novels, short stories, or play Leggi tutto

"It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words."

Google 'Sun and Steel' and the first book review will be titled 'In the Fascist Weight Room'. Mishima, it seems, is one of those authors surrounded by Discourse, that there are problems concerning the Type of Guy (always men) who like his books. As a newfound Buddhist, I am eager to explore the exte Leggi tutto

Ήλιος κι ατσάλι. Η φύση κι η πειθαρχεία, η ανθρώπινη υπόσταση που αποζητά την ευδαιμονία σε αντιπαράθεση με τον πόνο που χαρίζει βαθιά γνώση. Η υπαρξιακή αναζήτηση, το τραγικό και το απόλυτο. Πρώτη μου επαφή με τον αμφιλεγόμενο Ιάπωνα συγγραφέα, ένα εγχειρίδιο της προσωπικής του διαδρομής και ωρίμαν Leggi tutto