The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series): Yukio Mishima - Softcover

Mishima, Yukio

 
9781784875428: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series): Yukio Mishima
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1784875422 ISBN 13: 9781784875428
Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times

A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic.

They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.

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Yukio Mishima was born into a samurai family and imbued with the code of complete control over mind and body, and loyalty to the Emperor – the same code that produced the austerity and self-sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless short stories and thirty-three plays, in some of which he acted. Several films have been made from his novels, including The Sound of Waves; Enjo, which was based on The Temple of the Golden Pavilion; and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea. Among his other works are the novels Confessions of a Mask and Thirst For Love and the short-story collections Death in Midsummer and Acts of Worship.

The Sea of Fertility tetralogy, however, is his masterpiece. After Mishima conceived the idea of The Sea of Fertility in 1964, he frequently said he would die when it was completed. On November 25th, 1970, the day he completed The Decay of the Angel, the last novel of the cycle, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide) at the age of forty-five.

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VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS – five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.

A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.

Also includes the novel The Sound of Waves - a timeless story of first love set in a remote fishing village in Japan, this romantic, gentle tale displays a different side to Mishima's sensual yet coolly detached style.

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Verlag
Vintage Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1784875422
ISBN 13 
9781784875428
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
144
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