Product Description: Considerada como el testamento ideologico y literario de Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), El mar de la fertilidad es una tetralogia en la que el autor abarca a traves de su inconfundible mundo narrativo la evolucion del Japon desde comienzos del siglo xx hasta los anos1970, expresando su rebeldia contra una sociedad que el consideraba sumida en la decadencia moral y espiritual...read more

Yukio Mishima, reconocido como uno de los mas importantes novelistas y dramaturgos japoneses, fue tambien aclamado como maestro del cuento. Las diez historias que integran este volumen recogen una gran variedad de temas, que van desde el nimio incidente que trastocara las placidas relaciones de un grupo de amigas, en La perla, hasta la cruenta y ritual ceremonia del hara-kiri, a la que el mismo Mishima se someteria anos despues, o la compleja psicologia de uno de los actores que en el teatro Kabuki representa los papeles femeninos. Y junto con ellos el mundo de las geishas, la profunda espiritualidad de la religion budista, la obsesion por la muerte y el conflicto presente siempre en la vida y en la obra de Mishima de la oposicion entre las tradiciones y la modernizacion subita de un pais que trastoco en una sola generacion su modo de vida.

Chronicles the history of twentieth century Japan through the eyes of Shigekuni Honda, a young law student who will eventually become a judge and retire an extremely wealthy man, as he watches and struggles over the years of turmoil within Imperial Japan, growing pre-war fanaticism during the 1930s, and post-war secularization in a society becoming ever more morally and spiritually decadent, all the while believing he continues to encounter the various reincarnations of a friend condemned by karma to always suffer early death.

Chronicles the history of twentieth century Japan through the eyes of Shigekuni Honda, a young law student who will eventually become a judge and retire an extremely wealthy man, as he watches and struggles over the years of turmoil within Imperial Japan, growing pre-war fanaticism during the 1930s, and post-war secularization in a society becoming ever more morally and spiritually decadent, all the while believing he continues to encounter the various reincarnations of a friend condemned by karma to always suffer early death.

Chronicles the history of twentieth century Japan through the eyes of Shigekuni Honda, a young law student who will eventually become a judge and retire an extremely wealthy man, as he watches and struggles over the years of turmoil within Imperial Japan, growing pre-war fanaticism during the 1930s, and post-war secularization in a society becoming ever more morally and spiritually decadent, all the while believing he continues to encounter the various reincarnations of a friend condemned by karma to always suffer early death.

Chronicles the history of twentieth century Japan through the eyes of Shigekuni Honda, a young law student who will eventually become a judge and retire an extremely wealthy man, as he watches and struggles over the years of turmoil within Imperial Japan, growing pre-war fanaticism during the 1930s, and post-war secularization in a society becoming ever more morally and spiritually decadent, all the while believing he continues to encounter the various reincarnations of a friend condemned by karma to always suffer early death.

Product Description: First published by Penguin Books in 1972, the reissue of this volume is long overdue. The book contains 37 examples of poetry and short stories by 18 acclaimed writers, including Oe Kenzaburo, Abe Kobo, Ishihara Shintaro and Mishima himself.

Product Description: In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none of them...read more

Product Description: When Mishima committed ritual suicide in November 1970, he was only forty-five. He had written over thirty novels, eighteen plays, and twenty volumes of short stories. During his lifetime, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times and had seen almost all of his major novels appear in English...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas -- two types used in classical Japanese theater...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: My Mother is a unique bildungsroman of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother.?Publishers WeeklyMy Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man comprises three short pieces of erotic prose that fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a highly personal vision of the flesh...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)