by Marguerite Yourcenar · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432205309
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Mishima or the vision of emptiness is a work by Marguerite Yourcenar that explores the life and work of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. Through a biographical and literary analysis, Yourcenar unravels Mishima's psychological mechanisms, revealing his ambitions, triumphs, and contradictions. This study offers a deep vision of the Japanese culture and the complexity of Mishima's character, a tortured and controversial author.
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. In 1965, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
