Death in Midsummer And Other Stories: Death in Midsummer; Three Million Yen; Thermos Flasks; the Priest of Shiga Temple And His Love; the Seven ... Onnagata; the Pearl; Swaddling Clothes - Softcover
The old world meets the new in this collection of fiction and drama. A husband prepares to commit hara-kiri in the name of patriotism, an ascetic struggles with temptation, and a businessman meets a past love in the streets of San Francisco.
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In Death in Midsummer Yukio Mishima unfolds to English-language readers a range of his talents as he explores a variety of pathways into the complex Japanese personality. He can be funny, even hiliarious, but he is also capable of plunging into the dark psychic depths acheived by Hitchcock.--Robert Trumbell
When I read a writer such as Mishima I m not only experiencing a narrative but also dueling with another darkness behind the words. A seemingly empty house haunted with invisible presences obtusely felt, and the tingle of awareness that someone else is in it, watching.--Benjamin Hale"
Genius...Yukio Mishima is one of the great writers of the 20th-century. An extraordinary mind.
When I read a writer such as Mishima I'm not only experiencing a narrative but also dueling with another darkness behind the words. A seemingly empty house haunted with invisible presences obtusely felt, and the tingle of awareness that someone else is in it, watching.--Benjamin Hale
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When I read a writer such as Mishima I m not only experiencing a narrative but also dueling with another darkness behind the words. A seemingly empty house haunted with invisible presences obtusely felt, and the tingle of awareness that someone else is in it, watching.--Benjamin Hale"
Genius...Yukio Mishima is one of the great writers of the 20th-century. An extraordinary mind.
When I read a writer such as Mishima I'm not only experiencing a narrative but also dueling with another darkness behind the words. A seemingly empty house haunted with invisible presences obtusely felt, and the tingle of awareness that someone else is in it, watching.--Benjamin Hale
Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of the Japan's most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests besides writing included body-building, acting, and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realising this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature three times.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 014018158X
- ISBN 13 9780140181586
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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