Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence, and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima

by Roy Starrs

Although Mishima's main literary ambition was to write philosophical novels in the tradition of Goethe and Thomas Mann, Deadly Dialectics is the first critical study to take this objective it also provides the first adequate account of Mishima's intellectual background and characteristic modes of thought and it is the first book to show the intimate and integral relation between his thought and his psychology and militant politics - or, more specifically, between his nihilism, his sexuality and his propensity to violence.

Genres: Philosophy, Biography, Politics, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Japan, Essays

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 1994

Reviews

[فلاح رحيم · Rating 4 out of 5]

Deep insights into Mishima's Nihilistic themes in the context of Japanese narrative tradition and Western tradition of the philosophical novel. Smooth, sincere and to the point on post war and occupation cultures.

[Sam Kuivenhoven · Rating 1 out of 5]

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