Author : Alison Turnbull
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Artists' books
ISBN :
Spring snow is the first novel of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Alison Turnbull condenses the narrative into a colour chart. Working from the English edition, she isolates and orders each of the more than six hundred colours as they appear in the text - what emerges is a visual essay on the nature of translation.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 030783431X
"A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend. 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 childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae, are the sons of two such families. As they come of age amidst the growing tensions between old and new, Kiyoaki is plagued by his simultaneous love for and loathing of the spirited young woman Ayakura Satoko. But Kiyoaki’s true feelings only become apparent when her sudden engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion—and leads to a love affair both doomed and inevitable.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811201186
The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : New York : Grove Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Gay people
ISBN :
Consists of a series of essays
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"It was the sea that made me begin thinking secretly about love more than anything else; you know, a love worth dying for, or a love that consumes you. To a man locked up in a steel ship all the time, the sea is too much like a woman... Things like her lulls and storms, or her caprice... are all obvious." The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea tells the tale of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who 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 idealize the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard their disappointment in him as an act of betrayal on his part, and react violently.
Author : Yasutaka Tsutsui
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307476715
An irresistible mix of imagination, satire, and humor, these stories by acclaimed Japanese author Yasutaka Tsutsui imagine the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide. The opening story, “The Dabba Dabba Tree,” details the hilarious side effects of a small conical tree that, when placed at the foot of one’s bed, creates erotic dreams. In “Commuter Army,” a sly commentary on the ludicrousness of war, a weapons supplier becomes an unwilling conscript in a war zone. “The World is Tilting” imagines a floating city that slowly begins to sink on one side, causing its citizens to reorient their daily lives to preserve a semblance of normality. And in the title story, we see how obscenely absurd the environment on Planet Porno appears to a group of scientists. The stories in Salmonella Men on Planet Porno winningly combine madcap hilarity and a sharp eye toward the insanities of contemporary life.
Author : Shūsaku Endō
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811211987
Dr. Suguru, a competent physician, serves his internship during the war in a hospital where senior staff are more interested in career-building than in healing.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1407054139
Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda. When Satoko is engaged to a royal prince, Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion.
Author : Viktor Shklovsky
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2024-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1628975210
While living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. He fell into the habit of sending Elsa several letters a day, a situation she accepted under one condition: he was forbidden to write about love. Zoo, or Letters Not about Love is an epistolary novel born of this constraint, and although the brilliant and playful letters contained here cover everything from observations about contemporary German and Russian life to theories of art and literature, nonetheless every one of them is indirectly dedicated to the one topic they are all required to avoid: their author's own unrequited love.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 23,16 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307834344
A timeless story of first love set in a remote fishing village in Japan. • "A story that is both happy and a work of art.... Altogether a joyous and lovely thing." —The New York Times A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.
