Patriotism
Yukio Mishima
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'Was it death he was now waiting for? Or a wild ecstasy of the senses?' For the young army officer of Yukio Mishima's seminal story, 'Patriotism, ' death and ecstasy become elementally intertwined. With his unique rigor and passion, Mishima hones in on the body as the great tragic stage for all we call social, ritual, political.
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those who saw the bride and bridegroom in the commemorative photograph — perhaps no less than those actually present at the lieutenant’s wedding — had exclaimed in wonder at the bearing of this handso...
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