/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14880354]

What do you think of Mishima's idea of a beautiful death?

[Anonymous No.14880384]

>>14880354
More like a gay death imo

[Anonymous No.14880395]

>>14880354
A penniless faggot that worshipped a glorified dwarf, and his death wasn't very beautiful because the idiots in charge of beheading him couldn't do it properly.

[Anonymous No.14880460]

>>14880354
great writer shitty larper. he only did that coup shit because he isn't as cool as Dazai and couldn't find a qt to sudoku with him.

[Anonymous No.14880486]

>>14880354
He had a disturbing obsession with death due to his father intentionally putting him in deadly situations growing up. When Mishima was a child his father would hold him out into oncoming trains and pull him back mere seconds before being hit.

[Anonymous No.14880522]

>>14880486
interesting
many japanese especially soldiers had a general obsession with patriotism and death around that time in any case, and mishima's was probably furthered because he wasn't allowed to participate in the war so he might have felt that he was denied such a death or felt guilt over not sharing it with other soldiers

[Anonymous No.14880528]

A beautiful death if when you sacrifice yourself to save the ones you love and care about, nothing else.

[House of Leaves Guy No.14880556]

>>14880354
Mishima's death was dishonorable and embarassing in almost every way. I love him as a writer, but the dude went overboard, got checked, and はらきり'd accordingly.

[Anonymous No.14880654]

I have Mishima's same disgust with life. Death automatically has a romantic quality to me. His death obsession is something many people can't comprehend and try hard to ignore. You have to have a real longlasting disillusionment with reality to understand why he chose to emulate grand and romantic aesthetics, why he wanted to transfer his art into something real. Fetishizing death went well with that disgust with life, it was a natural extension of being so wrapped up with fantasies. You could say that once he decided to become a man of action, he began writing his suicde note.

>>14880556
He planned to die that way. He had given up, but he wanted to die at least giving the impression that there was a fight for the soul of Japan rather than compromise his principles by living to old age in a neutered Japan. It was a symbolic gesture, like some kind of performance art that intrudes into the realm of the real.

[House of Leaves Guy No.14880699]

>>14880654
That makes sense considering how highly he viewed traditional Japanese right wing views. I still think it's very sad to see such a popular and great writer go being ridiculed when he could have pumped iron and written books for years to come.

Like Ittosai, the samurai never dies, he just disappears.

[Anonymous No.14880704]

>>14880460
He was married to a woman and arguably gay, anon.