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Nine of Yukio Mishimäs finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book, they represent 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 Japa...

A beautiful hardback edition of a great Japanese classic, beautiful, lyrical and deeply ominous.A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first, but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fac...

A novel from "one of the outstanding writers of the world" (The New York Times) that explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. ¿ "A major work of art." -Time Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world - to them, adult life is illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental. When Noboru's widowed mother is romanced by Ryuji, a sailor, ...

»Leben zu verkaufen. Verfügen Sie frei über mich. Ich bin männlich, 27 Jahre alt und kann Geheimnisse wahren.« Als Hanio diese Anzeige schaltet, ahnt er nicht, was er damit auslöst. Bald findet er sich auf einem wilden Ritt durch eine Welt voller blutrünstiger Gangster, vergifteter Karotten, verzweifelter Junkies und verliebter Vampirfrauen wieder. Während sich um Hanio herum die Leichen sammeln, bleibt er wie durch ein Wunder am Leben und fra...

The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writersKoji, a young student, has fallen hopelessly in love with the beautiful, enigmatic Yuko. But she is married to the literary critic and serial philanderer Ippei. Tormented by desire and anger, Koji is driven to an act of violence that will bind this strange, terrible love triangle together for the rest of their lives. A starkly compelling ...

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», Sonne und Stahl' ist eine Darstellung meines fast schicksalhaften dualistischen Denkens und eine Erzählung über die physiologische Notwendigkeit, dualistisches Denken zu entwickeln.« Yukio Mishima Yukio Mishima gilt als einer der bedeutendsten und meistübersetzten Autoren Japans. Er wurde nicht nur durch seinen Roman "Bekenntnisse einer Maske", sondern auch durch seinen Selbstmord 1970 weltbekannt. Damals hatte er in Tokio in einer theatra...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithFilled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan's greatest writers show the pull between duty and desire, ecstasy and death: a mother lost in mourning, a moonlit journey to fulfil a wish, a night of infidelity...

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The Osugi family have come to a realization. Each of them hails from a different planet. Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. Already seen as oddballs in their small Japanese town in the 1960s, this extra-terrestrial knowledge brings them closer together, they climb mountains to wait for UFOs, study at home together and regard their human neighbours with a kindly benevolence.But Father, Juichiro, is ...

1950 steht der berühmte Goldene Pavillon in Kyoto in Flammen - das Feuer gelegt von einem jungen Mönch des Tempels. Berührt von der Geschichte des jungen Mannes, den er im Gefängnis besucht, verarbeitet Yukio Mishima sie zu einem Roman und formt daraus einen Höhepunkt seines Schaffens. Der junge Mizoguchi stottert und wird von den anderen Kindern ausgegrenzt. Mit jedem weiteren elenden und einsamen Moment wächst seine Sehnsucht nach dem Wahr...

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Kochan wächst, abgeschirmt von Jungen seines Alters, im imperialistischen Japan auf. Doch er merkt, dass er nicht das ist, was man von ihm erwartet: Nicht nur ist er körperlich schwächer als andere, er entwickelt auch eine Faszination für Tod, Gewalt, Sex und den männlichen Körper. Unter den strengen Blicken der japanischen Gesellschaft beginnt er, sich eine Maske zu formen, die sein wahres Selbst verbergen soll. Mehr noch: Er will sie sich al...

Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was the novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece. Translated into English for the first time, this atmospheric black comedy tells the story of the Osugi family, who come to the sudden realization that each of them hails from a different planet: Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. This extra-terrestrial knowledge brings th...

A great, ancient art form, brought right up to date by one of Japan's foremost writers

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.At one level, it may be read as an account of how a puny, bookish boy discovered the importance of his own physical being, the "sun and steel" of the title are themselves symbols respectively of the cult...

Yukio Mishima's classic work, Confessions of a Mask, in a new and improved edition of the collectible Cased Classics series, which now features trompe-l'oeil die-cut dust jackets, and the work of British contemporary artist Fraser Taylor.