Le Fusil de chasse: A ceremony where erotic pleasure and sadomasochistic submission echo Mishima’s performance esthetics of self immolation
A poet who mentions in a journal article that one day, he saw a hunter walking in the woods holding a rifle, receives a letter from that same hunter named Josuke Misugi. The missive contains three letters that could be a source of inspiration for the poet. What was the content of those letters? What was the hunter’s real reason for sending them? We soon find out as the three letters become the text of the play, Le Fusil de chasse, (The Hunting Rifle).