Yukio Mishima was a great writer, but the manner of his death, by seppuku, may now be better known to most people than his novels or plays.
In this early example of auto-fiction, Mishima offers a poetic analysis of his sentimental education as a young man whose sadomasochistic gay fantasies clash with the conventions of his upper-class upbringing.
The annihilation of beauty was Mishima's enduring theme, perhaps one of the motives for his own gruesome end.
Many of his novels are very much worth reading, highlighting the bloody political, erotic, and literary entanglements of his work.
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