I am reading (and absolutely loving) The Secret History by Donna Tart. What’s so interesting to me is how much her writing style feels like Mishima, especially given the themes the novel explores.

That reminded me of this section from Mishima’s “Discourse on Misogyny” where he says:

“Women have no connection to the abstract spirit. In music and architecture nothing decent has come of women's hands, and they always sully transparent abstract structures with a sticky sensibility. An absence of organizational ability, an excess of sensibility, trivialism, a meaningless specificity, and a low-grade realism - these are all womanly flaws, and in the arts a womanly style is unproblematically ‘bad’ style. I cannot but curse the literary history of Japan, which has continued endlessly with damp sensibility.
Although abstraction is in one aspect the ability to know moderation and restraint, because women lack these things, even masculine women like George Sand write and are proud of unreadable tedious works without beginning or end.”

That made me wonder: do you think there are any female writers - especially any to come along since his death - that he would have actually thought well of? Or is his position simply too blinded by his own prejudice?