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Yukio Mishima
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A classic of modern Japanese fiction. It is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in a polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.
"Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be "normal." Kochan is meek-bodied...
Author
Publisher
Vintage International, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
166 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Translated into English for the first time, a gripping short novel about an affair gone wrong, from the acclaimed Japanese author, Yukio Mishima. Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beasts tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakado; and Ippei's beautiful, enigmatic wife. When brought face-to-face...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP215
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1966]
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art. Nine of Yukio Mishima's 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. Often his characters are sophisticated...
6) Spring snow
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Kiyoaki Matsugae's passionate and ill-fated love for the betrothed daughter of a Tokyo aristocrat brings him into disfavor at the Imperial Court.
It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders: rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the three surreal, erotically charged tales in this collection, Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. These stories are piercing evocations of sexuality and human psychology-- and works of remarkable subtlety and beauty--that showcase one of the twentieth century's great writers at his very best."--Back cover.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A distraught youth is troubled by his mother's new relationship with her sailor boyfriend who occasionally drops by when his ship is in. The sailor, Jim Cameron, is a caring man who offers a supportive relationship to the woman as well as a kind word for the kid. In his confused and addled adolescent state (which isn't helped any by his association with a local youth gang) the boy plans a vengeful rite for his mother's beau..
10) Runaway horses
Author
Series
Hōjō no umi volume 2
Publisher
Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
Pub. Date
1973
Edition
[1st American ed.]
Physical Desc
421 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Hōjō no umi volume 4
Publisher
Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
Pub. Date
1974
Edition
[1st American ed.].
Physical Desc
236 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"English widow Anne Osborne lives by the sea with her young son, Jonathan. The arrival of a rugged American sailor, Jim, brings Anne the joy and sensual fulfillment she thought had gone forever, but her son is disturbed by this new intruder and joins a perverse group of fellow students led by the charismatic Chief"--Container.
