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🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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0:00.0 | The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglomerate Network and LitHub Radio. |
0:07.0 | Hello. |
0:14.5 | In our last episode, we focused on the eventful life and dramatic death of one of Japan's |
0:19.2 | greatest 20th century writers. |
0:21.7 | Today we shift our focus to his works, Yukio Mishima and the Sea of Fertility today on |
0:28.4 | the History of Literature. |
0:45.4 | Okay. |
0:46.4 | Hello. |
0:47.4 | Here we go. |
0:48.4 | I'm Jack Wilson. |
0:49.4 | Glad to be here. |
0:50.4 | And I'm glad you're here as well. |
0:51.4 | Mishima, I feel like we needed a bit of a rinse after the last episode. |
0:56.4 | A cool rain after the fire of him in his life. |
1:02.7 | That was, as Paul Theroux once put it, a grizzly business. |
1:07.6 | The suicide, the whole life leading up to it was intense and it could give you a completely |
1:12.8 | misleading view of what it's like to sit down and read Mishima's works. |
1:18.4 | That's one of the great mysteries of art and artists and artistry, I suppose. |
1:24.2 | You can go through his stories and novels and look for clues and they're there in retrospect. |
1:29.6 | It's easy to piece together a fascination with beauty and art and sex and death and youth |
1:36.1 | and suicide and noble sacrifice. |
1:39.3 | It's easy to look at his childhood, the intensity of the experience where he was kept |
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