The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea write by Yukio Mishima. This book was released on 2010-01-26. The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A tale of youth and warped masculinity, this is the suspenseful, lyrical and page-turning Japanese classic. A band of thirteen-year-old boys reject the stupidity of the adult world. They decide it is 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. ‘A page turning novel... A timeless classic’ Independent ‘Mishima’s greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century’ The Times TRANSLATED BY JOHN NATHAN
Star
Star - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Star write by Yukio Mishima. This book was released on 2019-04-30. Star available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker) Winner of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature All eyes are on Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells “action”; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions. Being a star, constantly performing, being watched and scrutinized as if under a microscope, is often a drag. But so is life. Written shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film “Afraid to Die,” this novella is a rich and unflinching psychological portrait of a celebrity coming apart at the seams. With exquisite, vivid prose, Star begs the question: is there any escape from how we are seen by others?
Life for Sale
Life for Sale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life for Sale write by Yukio Mishima. This book was released on 2020-04-14. Life for Sale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots—even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the cross hairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate. By turns wildly inventive, darkly comedic, and deeply surreal, in Life for Sale Yukio Mishima stunningly uses satire to explore the same dark themes that preoccupied him throughout his lifetime.
Confessions of a Mask
Confessions of a Mask - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confessions of a Mask write by Yukio Mishima. This book was released on 1958. Confessions of a Mask available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.
Persona
Persona - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Persona write by Naoki Inose. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Persona available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the life of the Japanese author who went from sickly youth to dedicated student of the martial arts, looking at his family life, the wartime years, and his career as a writer who advocated for traditional values.
