Deadly Dialectics

¸±±êÌâ: Sex, Violence and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima

ISBN: 9780824816315

³ö°æÉç: University of Hawaii Press

³ö°æÄê: 1994-6

Ò³Êý: 225

×°Ö¡: Paperback

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Nietzsche once described his own iconoclastic style of thought as 'my attempt to philosophize with a hammer', and Michima's nihilism too is the 'hammer' with which he smashes to pieces the masks worn by his characters - and this act of 'smashing' itself often forms the dramatic climax of his novels. This was Mishima's real 'act of courage': not the self-indulgent swordplay with which he mesmerized the world but the devastating honesty with which, in his writings, he unmasked his fictional alter egos and revealed the void which gaped behind the mask.