At age 20 he published the one-act play which he called a "tragicomic ecstasy", "Madame de Sade," which won the Kishida Prize.
His essay in literary theory, "Remember the Heroic Dead," defends his hetrodox claim that history's two most evocative poets were Rilke and Oscar Wilde. At age 20 he published the one-act play which he called a "tragicomic ecstasy", "Madame de Sade," which won the Kishida Prize. Better-known works include several gay confessional novels such as "Decay of Angels," the final volume of his "Sea of Fertility" cycle. More notably, he and his lover Shinji Morita, with some student activists, broke into the High Commandant's Tokyo office, briefly held him hostage, and called for news reporters in order to commit seppuku on national TV. FTP, identify this author of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion most famed for his first novel, Confessions of a Mask.
His essay in literary theory, "Remember the Heroic Dead," defends his hetrodox claim that history's two most evocative poets were Rilke and Oscar Wilde.
Yukio {Mishima} or Mishima {Yukio}