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Mishima and Hagakure

Mishima was obsessed for his entire life (or almost) by the re-gaining the values (ideologies) of a valuable life that has to be lived under the tension of art reinforced by the erotism of death. The vision of his contemporary Japan was devastating to him. A land deserted by real values, whose DEATH undoubtedly was the highest (and probably unique) value (ideology) for Male-kind. an age in which everything is based on the premise that it is best to live as long as possible. The average life span has become the longest in history, and a monotonous plan for humanity unfolds before us. He cannot shun art as he cannot shun death since the life of an artist is subdued to death. The occupation of the Samurai is death...death is the Samurai’s supreme motivation, and if a Samurai should fear or shun death, in that instant he would cease to be a Samurai. Life doesn't allow to be caught off-guard. It doesn't allow laxity, because this would mean to resign his claim ...

ON WRITING, NOWADAYS (in Italy)

For me writing means to be un écrivain engagé, to be an existentialist writer such as Camus, Sartre, and also, although someone cannot agree into calling them "existentialists", Yukio Mishima, Junichiro Tanizaki and Yasunari Kawabata. Engagé does not necessary mean that it should be in a strictly political sense, even though it possible to conceive this position like this. Engagé can also be understood in the sense of a writer who searches for the life meaning in facts that concern our own daily existence. A writer can be engagé in creating a certain kind of literature that tends to make people think, to find a way to make people reflect on existence, breaking certain traditional consolidated narratives. In creating alternative voices (alternative narratives) with reference to the dominant ones. The ideal figure of our writer is an engagé writer who owns a-just-writer-status, i.e. a writer who professionally is only a writer, and not writer and ... writer and ... and...

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