Yukio Mishima, “Tumultul valurilor”
Yukio Mishima, “The Sound of Waves”

Summary/Abstract: The essay aims at decoding the 1954 novel The Sound of Waves in relation to Mishima’s biography, political and aesthetic theory, arguing that his most serene artistic achievement is, in the end, a desperate self-deluding for various inner contradiction. In a minute hermeneutic approach the article identifies and interprets such defining issues as: suicide, loneliness, individualism, egoism, materialism, decisive action, physical strength, traditionalism, religiosity, providence, knowledge, experience, love, d art therapy for the nightmarish inner universe of an idealist.

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