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Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima

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Author Biography

Name: Yukio Mishima
Birth Date: January 14, 1925
Death Date: November 25, 1970
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Place of Death: Tokyo, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Yukio Mishima
752 words, approx. 2.5 pages
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was a Japanese novelist and playwright. He wrote in a multitude of styles, from ornate to plain, and dealt with a variety of subjects drawn from both literary sources and contemporary life. Born and raised in Tokyo, Yukio Mishim...
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Biography of Hiraoka Kimitake
6723 words, approx. 22.4 pages
More than two decades after his death, Mishima Yukio is arguably still the most famous writer modern Japan has produced. The reasons for this fame are both complex and controversial. His critics may suggest that his notorious death by seppuku, or ritual...
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Biography of Yukio Mishima
3997 words, approx. 13.3 pages
Life magazine once called Yukio Mishima "the Japanese Hemingway," while Japan's first Nobel laureate, Yasunari Kawabata, "declared that a `writer of his caliber appears only once every 200 or 300 years,'" as reported in the Economist. Mishima was a write...


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Thirst for Love Information
529 words, approx. 2 pages
Thirst for Love (or 愛の渇き, Ai no Kawaki) is a 1950 novel by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. The word "kawaki" literally means thirst, but has a sense of parched dryness associated with it. The title of the movie version has also been...


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The Boston Herald
Daughters' love overcomes a thirst for self-destruction.
04/08/1997: 680 words, approx. 2 pages
Like all drunks, Phil thought he had the world fooled. "I told myself, 'I'm not hurting anyone else.' "Holidays would come, big family get-togethers, and I'd always volunteer to cook because when you cook you're keeping busy. I knew I couldn't sit...
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The Christian Science Monitor
Frozen love and the thirst for adventure.(Features)(Ideas)(Books)
08/05/1999: 799 words, approx. 3 pages
THE COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS By Wayne Johnston Doubleday 528 pp., $24.95 As Hollywood forgot long ago, romance, terror, and wit are produced by restraint, not excess. What better place to test that rule than Newfoundland, whose ferocious weather inspires a great...
 


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Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima

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