The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Title | The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Yukio Mishima |
Publisher | Vintage Classics |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-04-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781784879723 |
A beautiful hardback edition of a great Japanese classic, beautiful, lyrical and deeply ominous. 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. 'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Title | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Yukio Mishima |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-11-20 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
A novel from "one of the outstanding writers of the world" (The New York Times) that explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. - "A major work of art." -Time Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world - to them, adult life is illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental. When Noboru's widowed mother is romanced by Ryuji, a sailor, Noboru is thrilled. He idolizes this rugged man of the sea as a hero. But his admiration soon turns to hatred, as Ryuji forsakes life onboard the ship for marriage, rejecting everything Noboru holds sacred. Upset and appalled, he and his friends respond to this apparent betrayal with a terrible ferocity.
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Title | The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Yukio Mishima |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 2010-01-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1407054112 |
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 disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.
Star
Title | Star PDF eBook |
Author | Yukio Mishima |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 2019-04-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811228436 |
For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker) All eyes are on Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells “action”; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions. Being a star, constantly performing, being watched and scrutinized as if under a microscope, is often a drag. But so is life. Written shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film “Afraid to Die,” this novella is a rich and unflinching psychological portrait of a celebrity coming apart at the seams. With exquisite, vivid prose, Star begs the question: is there any escape from how we are seen by others?
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Title | The Temple of the Golden Pavilion PDF eBook |
Author | Yukio Mishima |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Arson |
ISBN | 0099285673 |
Bringing together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of Japan, this novel is based on an actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple. The novel is a meditation on the state of Japan in the post-war period.
My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima
Title | My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima PDF eBook |
Author | Yukio Mishima |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780231126335 |
Acclaimed Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was also a prolific playwright, penning more than sixty plays, nearly all of which were produced in his lifetime. Hiroaki Sato is the first to translate these plays into English. For this collection he has selected five major plays and three essays Mishima wrote about drama. The title play is a satire that follows the breakdown of friendship between Adolf Hitler and two Nazi officials who were ultimately assassinated under orders from Hitler.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Title | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Yukio Mishima |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 1994-05-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Explores an adolescent's response to his mother's love affair with a handsome visitor to Yokohama.