“His was a life of ceaseless self-reinvention – a dutiful son and law student who became, aged 24, the scandalising author of the homoerotic Confessions of a Mask; a wan aesthete who bulked himself up into a muscle-man poseur; a homosexual man who married and had children; and, through the 1960s, a vociferous advocate of an honour-bound imperial Japan who was also a media showboater with gaudy “western” tastes.”
— At The Guardian, a really fascinating write-up of the life and work of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. I’d known next to nothing about him before this. Now I want to read all his work.
