Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1966-01-17
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 081123939X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art. Nine of Yukio Mishima’s finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are sophisticated modern Japanese who turn out to be not so liberated from the past as they had thought.
Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780811201179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nine short stories by the Japanese literary genius provide insights into the struggles and problems of his contemporary countrymen.
Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780811201186
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.
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Publisher: PeriplusEdition
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9784805306178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2020-04-14
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0525565159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots—even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the cross hairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate. By turns wildly inventive, darkly comedic, and deeply surreal, in Life for Sale Yukio Mishima stunningly uses satire to explore the same dark themes that preoccupied him throughout his lifetime.
Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780140033229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780811213127
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Was it death he was now waiting for? Or a wild ecstasy of the senses?' For the young army officer of Yukio Mishima's seminal story, 'Patriotism, ' death and ecstasy become elementally intertwined. With his unique rigor and passion, Mishima hones in on the body as the great tragic stage for all we call social, ritual, political.
Author: Rae Yang
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2013-03
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0520276027
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Fifteen years after its first publication, Spider Eaters remains my go-to memoir about coming of age during the Mao years. Rae Yang's work is notable for its reflectiveness, complexity, psychological insight, and unflinching honesty. I commend this riveting work to a generation of readers for whom the cultural Revolution is now of 'merely' historical interest."—Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz "By oscillating between scenes that are bland in their matter-of-fact concreteness and ones that are almost unbelievable in their nightmarish cruelty and complexity, Rae Yang skillfully evokes the bizarre and contradictory 'revolutionary' world in which she grew up in Mao's China. Spider Eaters is a reminder of what a traumatic history the Chinese people have undergone this century and that a country's past—even when many would rather forget it—always lives irrevocably on within those who experienced it."—Orville Schell, author of Mandate of Heaven "How can we expect anyone to know the United States without understanding the effect the Sixties had on all of us? Similarly, how can we know China without comprehending the impact the Sixties and the Cultural Revolution had on its politics, culture, and people? Rae Yang's Spider Eaters goes far in building that understanding. It is a gripping memoir."—Lisa See, author of On Gold Mountain
Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2024-05-02
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 0241678951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection shows his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. A moonlit journey to fulfil a wish; a mother lost in mourning; a night of infidelity; and a young lieutenant who ends his life. Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these hauntingly beautiful short stories from one of Japan's greatest writers show the pull between duty and desire, ecstasy and death. In the title story, 'Death in Midsummer', which is set at a beach resort, a triple tragedy becomes a cloud of doom that requires exorcising. In another, 'Patriotism', a young army officer and his wife choose a way of vindicating their belief in ancient values that is as violent as it is traditional; it prefigured his own death by seppuku in November 1970. There is a story in which the sad truth of the relationship between a businessman and his former mistress is revealed through a suggestion of the unknown, and another in which a working-class couple, touching in their simple love for each other, pursue financial security by rather shocking means.