Rebellion of beauty. The aesthetics of Yukio Mishima and Eduard Limonov

The topic of this book is the perception of aesthetics Yukio Misima in Russia, the implementation of Misima"s ideas in the works of Eduard Limonov and some of his followers. Speaking about the creative similarity of two writers, the author allocates such important and general elements in their prose, as aesthetics of youth, a beautiful body, theme of the hero, war, revolutionary uprising. In biographies, Misima and Limonov are celebrated as external roll calls - passionate by the Westernism at the beginning of life, latent homosexuality, the scandalous image of the "inconvenient writer" in the native country, popularity abroad, passing nationalism and an attempt of a revolutionary uprising, and internal - the motive of vital, the desire to create himself His biography and create it, first of all, in accordance with the ideals of its aesthetic system.
The book is designed for readers interested in the general problems of culture