{"product_id":"mishimas-head","title":"Mishima's Head","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productExcerpt\"\u003eThe head and the creation of words. Mishima had realized that there could not be one without the other. He had realized that if he had had a head like everyone else, he would be dead in the same way the rest die. Definitively.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMishima’s Head\u003c\/em\u003e, Mario Bellatin trails his sometimes avatar, the Japanese literary icon Yukio Mishima, across a cyclorama of figures and phantoms, where images and memories flash like photographs in passing view. His ritual decapitation complete, Mishima’s wanderings are headless and propulsive. Histories and stories come and go. A writer’s torments are forever.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe oft-hooded master of letters \u003cstrong\u003eMario Bellatin\u003c\/strong\u003e is widely hailed as one of Mexico’s greatest living writers. An uncategorizable avant-gardist, practicing Sufi and author of cult novels \u003cem\u003eBeauty Salon\u003c\/em\u003e (1994) and \u003cem\u003eJacob the Mutant\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), Bellatin has channeled Yukio Mishima as an emblem of insistent self-fashioning in his previous works \u003cem\u003eFlowers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMishima’s Illustrated Biography\u003c\/em\u003e (translated as a two-part volume by Kolin Jordan, 2014). He directs the Escuela Dinámica de Escritores in Mexico City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShook\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, translator, and filmmaker raised in Mexico City. Shook is the founder of the nonprofit publishing house Phoneme Media, where they have edited over 30 books translated from 26 languages, among these the first ever literary translations from Uyghur and Lingala. Shook has translated over 15 books from Spanish and Isthmus Zapotec, including Mario Bellatin’s \u003cem\u003eThe Large Glass: Three Autobiographies\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), \u003cem\u003eShiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) and \u003cem\u003eThe Uruguayan Book of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\/pages\u003c\/strong\u003e: pocket softcover \/ 176 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9798990416550\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hanaman Editions \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear\u003c\/strong\u003e: 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mario Bellatin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55069505847629,"sku":"9798990416550","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0016\/9325\/3689\/files\/1749519479-900.png?v=1792070628","url":"https:\/\/knygynas.biz\/products\/mishimas-head","provider":"Knygynas eureka!","version":"1.0","type":"link"}