Ordalie par les Roses

Yukio Mishima

Publié par Éditions Hologramme, le 01 octobre 1986

100 pages

Résumé

"Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses" is a rare glimpse into the life of the great modern Japanese writer, Yukio Mishima, who ended his life in 1970 by ritual suicide. Many in Japan regarded the suicide as a sensational act. However, the publication of Mishima's final cycle of novels, which had been conceived eight years prior to his death, revealed that his death was carefully considered--a gesture of historical import in perfect accord with the morbid and esoteric aesthetic that pervades his writing. In 1961 Mishima asked Eikoh Hosoe to photograph him, giving him full artistic direction in making these surreal and alluring photographs. The props that surround the writer and the baroque interior of his home are antithetical to the pure Japanese sensibility of understatement and reveal Mishima's dark, theatrical imagination.

Le Tumulte des flots

Chevaux échappés

Vie à vendre

Le pavillon d'or

Confession d'un masque

La Mer de la fertilité

Le Palais des Fêtes

Neige de printemps

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