Books by Yukio Mishima (7)


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El Templo del Alba by Yukio Mishima ES

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
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Considerada como el testamento ideológico y literario de Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), «El mar de la fertilidad» es una tetralogía en la que el autor abarca a través de su inconfundible mundo narrativo la evolución del Japón desde comienzos del siglo xx hasta los años1970, expresando su rebeldía contra una sociedad que él consideraba sumida en la decadencia moral y espiritual. Obra transida de espiritualidad oriental a la vez que malévolo retrato del Japón posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, EL TEMPLO DEL ALBA (1970) es una novela que, como las del resto de la serie, participa de un torrente d... continue

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La mort en été by Yukio Mishima FR

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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Dix nouvelles sont ici rassemblées. Elles reflètent tout à la fois la diversité des talents de Mishima - art du détail comme du développement thématique, art de la description comme de l'ellipse - et de la diversité des univers qu'il pénètre. Les hommes d'affaires et leurs épouses, les geishas, les gens du peuple, les acteurs du kabuki, le vieux prêtre du temple de Shiga et les soldats finissent par composer un Japon moderne en butte à ses traditions séculaires. Et tout est là : l'amour vénal, l'amour sublime et sacrilège ; la perversion des femmes et du monde de l'argent ; les superstitions e... continue

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Le pavillon d'or by Yukio Mishima FR

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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Sans rien changer à sa pose parfaitement protocolaire, la femme, tout à coup, ouvrit le col de son kimono. Mon oreille percevait presque le crissement de la soie frottée par l'envers raide de la ceinture. Deux seins de neige apparurent. Je retins mon souffle. Elle prit dans ses mains l'une des blanches et opulentes mamelles et je crus voir qu'elle se mettait à la pétrir. L'officier, toujours agenouillé devant sa compagne, tendit la tasse d'un noir profond. Sans prétendre, l'avoir, à la lettre, vu, j'eus du moins la sensation nette, comme si cela se fût déroulé sous mes yeux, du lait blanc et t... continue


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Star by Yukio Mishima EN

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A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary icon All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, 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. Written shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film Afraid to Die, th... continue

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Sun & Steel by Yukio Mishima EN

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This is the personal testament of Japan's greatest novelist, written shorty before his public suicide in 1970. Through Mishima's finely wrought and emphatic prose, the mind and motivation behind his agonized search for personal identity is revealed. In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none of them. At one level, it may be read as an account of how a puny, bookish boy discovered the importance

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The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
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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.