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Yukio Mishima; Michael Gallagher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140041362 ISBN 13: 9780140041361

Publisher: Penguin, 1976

Synopsis

A love story set in Tokyo in 1912, when the supremacy of the ancient aristocracy is being challenged for the first time by rich provincial families whose wealth make them formidable contenders for political power.

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Review

"Mishima is like Stendhal in his precise psychological analyses, like Dostoevsky in his explorations of darkly destructive personalities."

-- Christian Science Monitor

"[The Sea of Fertility] is a literary legacy on the scale of Proust's."

-- National Review

Translated from the Japanese by Michael Gallagher

Perfect beauty. . . . A classic of Japanese literature.
"Chicago Sun-Times"
Mishima was one of literature's great romantics, a tragedian with a heroic sensibility, an intellectual, an esthete, a man steeped in Western letters who toward the end of his life became a militant Japanese nationalist.
Jay McInerney, "The New York Times""

"Perfect beauty. . . . A classic of Japanese literature."
--Chicago Sun-Times

"Mishima was one of literature's great romantics, a tragedian with a heroic sensibility, an intellectual, an esthete, a man steeped in Western letters who toward the end of his life became a militant Japanese nationalist."
--Jay McInerney, The New York Times

Book Description

The first novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetraology

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140041362
• ISBN 13: 9780140041361
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368