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Misako Nemoto, « Au cœur de la figure de Mishima », Littérature, ID : 10.3406/litt.1998.2488
At the Heart of the Figure of Mishima Mishima's Confession of a Mask (1949) both turned him into a literary figure and showed him as a figure of literature ; in 1970, he dated the last paragraph of his last book with the date of his suicide, the finishing touch of a life — long quest to unravel fiction and reality — by knitting them more firmly together, « at the heart ».