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Yukio Mishima was a great craftsman of Japanese prose, and deep down seemed to be a sensitive and vulnerable man, but his obsessions with provocation and his inability to tolerate boredom drove him to extraordinary aggressiveness.
Mishima: A Biography
by John Nathan
The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima
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December 11, 1975 issue
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