Beauty beyond frontiers: reception of T. Mann's aesthetics by Y. Mishima

Though original, Japanese culture has always been influenced by those of other countries. It is also true for such an independent writer as Yukio Mishima. In the development of his aesthetics system, Mishima adopted most of the aesthetic concepts of his favorite writer T. Mann: themes of beauty, death, youth, the images of sun and mirror. The reception of beauty by Mishima's characters was also strongly influenced by Mann. The development of Mann's aesthetics is also of deep interest, as it contains the traces of Christian aesthetic system, which, in combination with such concepts as death and homosexuality, makes this system almost unique. Mishima was the one who accepted and incorporated this complicated aesthetics system in his creativity.

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