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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
couldn’t stop thinking what this dude would’ve been like on psychedelics. probably a little more chill.
I need to reread so I can completely understand this unfathomable piece of literature!
challenging
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
It took me quite some time to write this review, due to the fact that, despite my original enjoyment of the book, the more I reflected on the actual content, the more disconcerted I grew.
'Sun and Steel' is a fundamental book for those who wish to understand Yukio Mishima and his work. In this book, Mishima offers the readers an unobstructed view of his driving forces, of his thought process, and a critical opinion on his own work, while at the same time choosing to distance himself from it, which greatly disturbed me.
While not unusual, Mishima candidly offers us his struggles in finding a middle ground, a unifying force to the antithetical energies which drove him, from the intellectual to the physical, from the individual to the group, from the heroic to the common. What struck me as unsettling, although it shouldn't have considering the man committed seppuku, was his insistence that death was the only unifying principle available, and only heroic death (i.e. tragic death) at that.
In the end, the book is a fascinating piece of literary criticism, mixed with metaphysical ideation and analyses, and an unhealthy dose of admiration for the past and martial life. While it was a tremendously engaging read at the time, it left me with too many unanswerable questions and overall feeling of uncertainty.
'Sun and Steel' is a fundamental book for those who wish to understand Yukio Mishima and his work. In this book, Mishima offers the readers an unobstructed view of his driving forces, of his thought process, and a critical opinion on his own work, while at the same time choosing to distance himself from it, which greatly disturbed me.
While not unusual, Mishima candidly offers us his struggles in finding a middle ground, a unifying force to the antithetical energies which drove him, from the intellectual to the physical, from the individual to the group, from the heroic to the common. What struck me as unsettling, although it shouldn't have considering the man committed seppuku, was his insistence that death was the only unifying principle available, and only heroic death (i.e. tragic death) at that.
In the end, the book is a fascinating piece of literary criticism, mixed with metaphysical ideation and analyses, and an unhealthy dose of admiration for the past and martial life. While it was a tremendously engaging read at the time, it left me with too many unanswerable questions and overall feeling of uncertainty.
Ooooof...this was a rather pretentious slog of a read.