Mishima o el placer de morir

Synopsis of Mishima o el placer de morir

Mishima o el placer de morir is a biography of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, written by Juan Antonio Vallejo-Nágera. The book explores Mishima's life and motivations, including his controversial ritual suicide. Vallejo-Nágera analyzes in detail the fundamental characteristics of Mishima's personality, such as his feelings of inferiority, his narcissistic exhibitionism, and his homosexuality, and how these aspects can explain his conduct, which is incomprehensible to the Western mentality. This work offers a deep and personal vision of a symbol of our tormented time.