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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...
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Vintage International, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
166 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"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...
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New Directions paperbook volume NDP215
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1966]
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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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...
7) Spring snow
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English
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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
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.
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English
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Hōjō no umi volume 4
Publisher
Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
Pub. Date
1974
Edition
[1st American ed.].
Physical Desc
236 p. 22 cm.
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English
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English
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"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
Pearson Longman
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
xiii, 926 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of fifty-two short stories, covering a wide range of international authors and offering insight into the art of short story, including works by Chinua Achebe, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Yukio Mishima, Eudora Welty, among others.
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