lou1sb 's review for:

Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima by Naoki Inose

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At first glance this is a refreshingly chronological biography, but this is not entirely true. While other biographies, written by non-Japanese biographers, open with death and pull back to view the life leading up to it, Inose and Sato open with what Mishima could have become, and go back to investigate why he didn't. A brick I had to rush through at the end (it's an interloan and it's due back tomorrow), exceptionally detailed but still won't justify why no one else has bothered to translate Kyoko's House.