What are some books/stories similar to Patriotism by Yukio Mishima?

[Anonymous No.20299254]

It may be a niche genre but what are some other books that involve political coups, politics, love, and ritual suicide?

[Anonymous No.20299259]

>>20299254
And here is a link to the written story incase any of you are unaware of it

http://www.csun.edu/~rdavids/150sp09/150readings/Mishima_Patriotism.pdf

[Anonymous No.20299268]

>>20299254
It’s not exactly similar, and I think as a novel it doesn’t quite work, but D.H. Lawrence’s book ‘Kangaroo’ has the protagonist get involved with an underground paramilitary movement in Australia, with lots of meditations on the nature of love — both in his relationship with his wife and in his relationship with the movement’s leader

[Anonymous No.20299283]

Not literature, but: Tom of Finland.

[Anonymous No.20299387]

>>20299254
Maybe Bill Hopkins?

[Anonymous No.20299398]

>>20299254
See Ring des Nibelungen can be read equally as a political story as a mythological story, and inspired Mishima's Tetralogy The Sea of Fertility. Likewise Tristan und Isolde inspired Patriotism, though unlike Mishima in Patriotism, Wagner didn't bring his nationalism into this work.

[Anonymous No.20299404]

>>20299283
Different Aesthetics, much too horny and no suicide risk.

[Anonymous No.20299412]

>>20299398
Never thought of the Tristan comparison anon, embarrassingly enough. That must be why I loved it so much.

[Anonymous No.20299490]

>>20299254
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare.

>ANTONY
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.
He only in a general honest thought
And common good to all made one of them.
His life was gentle and the elements
So mixed in him that nature might stand up
And say to all the world “This was a man.”

[Anonymous No.20299676]

Demons by Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.20299681]

You have read Runaway Horses, yes?

[Anonymous No.20300439]

[Anonymous No.20300639]

>>20299412
Mishima was really on the nose when he used the music from Tristan for his film adaptation.

Absolutely kino fusion.

[Anonymous No.20300980]

>>20299254
It's not possible to be an authentic Japanese nationalist who sucks Meiji dick. Japan had a very different and irreconcilable culture pre-Meiji era. Shogunate vs Meiji royal family is a tip of the iceberg. The Meiji empire basically reinvented Japan, just like Mao reinvented China, and a little over a century later, people forget and assume Japan has cultural continuity to pre-Meiji times.
Also, there's a reason why Japan has a large number of Mason lodges, lots of Judeo-Christian imagery in random media, and acts confused over their racial identity in various popular media. Japan willing choose to be pets of the West ever since Meiji era, and while they may not be cucked like Korean Christians, they are very similar in the mentality of valuing global image more than their own dignity and integrity.
Mishima was not a real nationalist; he was just a liar and deceiver who does not analyze the historical context with impartiality. I do not like liars.
Before anyone insinuates I am full of jealousy, I have highly scathing criticisms of most historically "relevant" countries/cultural spheres. People who think memes are just useful idiots who fall for whatever narrative convenient to the people in power at the time (much of the time counterintuitive).

[Anonymous No.20300989]

>>20300980
>willing
willingly*
>think memes
think in memes*

[Anonymous No.20302420]

>>20299681
I haven't yet actually, is it essential to read Spring Snow before Runaway Horses?