Should I read this or should I start somewhere else from Mishima ?

Confessions of a Mask is the starting point when it comes to Mishima.

>>9766123
People tend to dump on "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" but I think it's a nice short introduction to Mishima. It's pretty bleak and LOTF-esque in places but it explores themes that you'll see in other Mishima works.

If you're feeling a little more ambitious try "Spring Snow".

>>9766123
>Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Read this first. It's great.

Confessions and Sailor are also terrif. The order doesn't matter so much. Sailor is quite different than, but closer in tone to Temple, than is Confessions, which feels like a memoir.

All three will bring that dark cloud over your head that is peculiar to the author -- his brand, if you will, as much as Kafka's strangeness was *his* brand.

Prepare to enter the darkness that is Mishima.

Couldn't into Spring Snow.

>>9766480
The Sea of Fertility books are probably the least accessible Mishima novels but, at least in my opinion, some of the better ones.

>>9766123
Temple is his masterpiece in my opinion at least.
It's one of the most aesthetically beautiful books I've read.

>>9766510
That intrigues me. I remember reading Temple, Sailor, Confessions and Sun and Steel rather quickly, and buying the Sea of Fertility books with great expectations... and then coming to a sort of grinding halt. They just didn't work for me. It was kind of frustrating. Maybe someday.

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Someone post the Mishima chart.

Why is Thirst for Love so underrated?

>>9768492
nobody ever talks about Forbidden Colors either

Did he ever write any political writings? That's the part of him I'd like to research more.

>>9770396
Lol it's mashima everything he wrote is political m8 read between the lines my man