Runaway Horses: His the Sea of Fertility 2 - Hardcover

Mishima, Yukio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394466187 ISBN 13: 9780394466187

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1973

Synopsis

A young man and his father find their views on patriotism conflict in Japan during the 1930's

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Review:

"In Runaway Horses Mishima writes of a desire to destroy or subvert beauty at its height, thus strengthening its appeal and preventing its slow decay" (New York Times)

"One of the great writers of the twentieth century" (Los Angeles Times)

"Mishima's novels exude a monstrous and compulsive weirdness, and seem to take place in a kind of purgatory for the depraved" (Angela Carter)

"This tetralogy is considered one of Yukio Mishima's greatest works. It could also be considered a catalogue of Mishima's obsessions with death, sexuality and the samurai ethic. Spanning much of the 20th century, the tetralogy begins in 1912 when Shigekuni Honda is a young man and ends in the 1960s with Honda old and unable to distinguish reality from illusion. En route, the books chronicle the changes in Japan that meant the devaluation of the samurai tradition and the waning of the aristocracy" (Washington Post)

"Mishima succeeded, unlike any other writer before him, in creating a glittering alloy of Eastern and Western traditions, classical and contemporary forms" (New York Times)

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0394466187
• ISBN 13: 9780394466187
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 421