Yukio Mishima Libros

Considerada como el testamento ideológico y literario de Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), «El mar de la fertilidad» es una tetralogía en la que el autor abarca a través de su inconfundible mundo narrativo la evolución del Japón desde comienzos del siglo XX hasta los años 1960, expresando su rebeldía contra una sociedad que él con sideraba sumida en la decadencia moral y espiritual. Novela que se centra alrededor de un complot concebido por jóvenes idealistas en 1932 para eliminar a las figuras políticas que han ?traicionado? al Emperador, ?Caballos desbocados? (1969) ?y la narración titulada «La Liga del Viento Divino» que inserta y que relata uno de los más famosos episodios del ocaso de los samuráis? contiene muchasde las claves que explican el ya cercano suicidio ritual del autor.

LA CORRUPCIÓN DE UN ÁNGEL (1974) es la última novela de la serie que vertebra como testigo y protagonista Shigekuni Honda. Situada en los años 1970, la historia de ilusión y desencanto que desarrolla tiene como ejes la preocupación por la vejez y el fin de las ilusiones, la consideración del suicidio como medio para sortear el dolor de la existencia, la admiración por la virilidad y la belleza, y el horror por la vulgaridad del mundo moderno.

Todo parece ir sobre ruedas durante la luna de miel de la joven Ayako Inagaki. Su marido, Toshio Takigawa, es el hombre ideal: tierno, atractivo, culto, elegante, deportista... Pero hay algo que empieza inquietarle: la extraña relación de Toshio con su madre, una afable y encantadora mujer de porte aristocrático, viuda del embajador japonés en Londres. La señora Takigawa está muy bien relacionada con la alta sociedad de Tokio, incluida la casa imperial, a la que quiere acceder el padre de Ayako, un ejecutivo ambicioso y esnob. En "Vestidos de noche" (sátira feroz con tonos irreverentes de la hipocresía social reinante en la alta sociedad japonesa tras la derrota en la Segunda Guerra Mundial) Mishima explora nuevamente el lado más oscuro e inconfesable del ser humano.

The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertility Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when 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. Among this rising new elite are the ambitious Matsugae, whose son has been raised in a family of the waning aristocracy, the elegant and attenuated Ayakura. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new -- fiercely loving and hating the exquisite, spirited Ayakura Satoko. He suffers in psychic paralysis until the shock of her engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion, and leads to a love affair that is as doomed as it was inevitable.

One of the most powerful short stories ever written, this work discusses the dynamics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide.

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

Death, homosexuality and the spiritual emptiness of post-war Japan: these are the often shocking subjects which Mishima explores. The old world meets the new in this collection of fiction and drama by one of Japan's most celebrated writers. A husband prepares to commit hara-kiri in the name of patriotism; an ascetic struggles with temptation; and a businessman meets a past love in the streets of San Francisco. Violence colours the work of Mishima, as it did his life. But there is also delicate observation, pathos, humour and irony in these beautifully crafted tales. Contents: - Death in Midsummer - Three Million Yen - Thermos Flasks - The Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love - The Seven Bridges - Patriotism - Dōjōji - Onnagata - The Pearl - Swaddling Clothes

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 fact soft and romantic.They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The TimesVINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful