Lecture: Four Japanese Novelists: Yukio Mishima
April 19, 1999
Lecture: Four Japanese Novelists: Yukio Mishima
Prof. Donald Keene (University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus, Columbia University)
**NOTE** LOCATION CHANGED TO: Altschul Auditorium on the 4th floor of the International Affairs Building (118th St. & Amsterdam Ave.), Columbia University 6:00 PM
Donald Keene, the Western world’s most celebrated scholar of Japanese literature and culture, will relate personal reminiscences about Yukio Mishima and comment on his literary achievements. One of the most talented writers to emerge in postwar Japan, Yukio Mishima completed his first novel the year he entered the University of Tokyo. Twenty three more followed, along with more than forty plays, over ninety short stories, several poetry and travel volumes, and hundreds of essays. In 1970, at the peak of a brilliant literary career, he shocked the world with his suicide. His death brought an irreparable loss to the world of Japanese letters.
Tickets are $15.00 per lecture.
Columbia students are admitted free with an ID.
Tickets are available at the door and can also be purchased in advance by sending a check payable to The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture and a self-addressed stamped envelope to The Donald Keene Center, 507 Kent Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.
Part of Four Japanese Novelists Lecture Series
