Beauty rebellion. Aesthetics Yukio Misima and Eduard Limonov. 2nd edition, corrected and supplemented. Kantsev A.V.

Yukio Misima has become widely known in Russia since the beginning of the 1990s, while one of his first readers was Edward Limonov, who perceived not only the literary characteristics of the Japanese writer, but also his life credo-an aesthetic system in a broad sense.

This creative reception is the present book.

on the wide material, including literary, cultural, philosophical and political science contexts, the author explores how the aesthetics of Mishima - the themes of heroism, war, revolution, idealization Youth and beautiful body, finally, the phenomenon of incomprehensible beauty, inextricably linked with death, reflected in the figure of the eternal rebel Limonov. Substantiating the similarity of the two writers are not exhausted by textual roll calls, but are also considered in terms of their biographies (passionate enthusiasm for all Western at the beginning of life and all the national at its end, the shocking image of the “uncomfortable writer”, etc.) and deeper - in conscious life -making, adulthood With its aesthetic ideals.

The second, corrected and supplemented publication is published with the application of the articles of the author, specifying and expanding research contexts.

The book is addressed to literary scholars, philosophers, culturalists, as well as everyone interested in the work of Yukio Misima and Eduard Limonov.