Sun and Steel (essay)

Sun and Steel (essay)

"Sun and Steel: Art, Action and Ritual Death" is a book by Yukio Mishima. It is an autobiographical essay, a memoir of the author's relationship to his body. The book recounts the author's experiences with, and reflections upon, his bodybuilding and martial arts training.

The book was first published in 1968, gathering what had appeared in (the Takeshi Maramatsu founded magazine) "Criticism" from late 1965 on.

It was translated by John Bester (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1970, ISBN 0-87011-117-5; New York, Grove Press, 1970, ISBN 0-394-17765-7; London, Secker and Warburg, 1971, ISBN 0-436-28155-4; Kodansha America reissue edition, 1994, ISBN 0-87011-425-5; Kodansha International, 2003, ISBN 4-7700-2903-9).

External links

* [http://members.tripod.com/dennismichaeliannuzz/NoteBooksSun.HTML "Sun and Steel"] at The Yukio Mishima Web Page.
* [http://www.glbtq.com/literature/mishima_y,3.html Review of "Sun and Steel"] by Seigo Nakao
* [http://users.aol.com/geinster/SAM.html "The Samurai and the Ubermensch: Tragic Heroes"] by John Marmysz compares "Sun and Steel" with Nietzsche's "Ecce Homo".


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