Yukio Mishima: Death in Midsummer

Cover: 9780241678947 | Death in Midsummer | Yukio Mishima | Taschenbuch | 208 S. | Englisch

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Sprache: Englisch

Originalsprache: Japanisch

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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 realizing this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature three times.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Penguin Modern Classics
Inhalt:	208 S.
ISBN-13:	9780241678947
ISBN-10:	0241678943
Sprache:	Englisch
Originalsprache:	Japanisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mishima, Yukio
Übersetzung:	Edward G Seidensticker/Donald Keene/Geoffrey W Sargent et al
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Penguin Classics
Maße:	191 x 130 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Yukio Mishima
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.05.2024
Gewicht:	0,157 kg

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