MISHIMA YUKIO

(P/B) AFTER THE BANQUET
For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit, and eventually Kazu must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. After the Banquet is a magnificent portrait of political and domestic warfare. (From the publisher)...
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Η ΗΘΙΚΗ ΤΩΝ ΣΑΜΟΥΡΑΙ ΣΤΗ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΙΑΠΩΝΙΑ
Για τον Μίσιμα τόσο ο φασισμός όσο και ο κομουνισμός είναι από τη μεριά των «βαρβάρων» δικός του είναι μόνο ο κώδικας της ηθικής των σαμουράι. Ιδεογράμματα βαθιά χαραγμένα στο σώμα των ιαπωνικών νησιών. Δεν είναι τυχαίο που από τα τρία Μπουσίντο που έχουν εμφανιστεί ιστορικά στη Ιαπωνία, ο Μίσιμα διαλέγει το πιο αυστηρό, το πιο φανατικό σε όλους τους σκοπούς τοποθετεί τον εθελούσιο θάνατο, αυτόν χωρίς το παραμικρό κάλυμμα, πάνω από τη συμφιλίωση με το κενό. Η επιλογή του αυτή κρύβει εντέλει και τον πιο βαθύ ανθρωπισμό. Αν εκτιμούμε τόσο ...
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(P/B) CONFESSIONS OF A MASK
'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain' A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the objects of his lust are tortured, killed and maimed. But, in the rigid world of imperial wartime Japan there is no place for such transgressive desires. He must wear a false mask and hide his true nature, whatever the cost. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE TEMPLE OF DAWN
Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business, where he is granted an audience with a young Thai princess - an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. He is convinced she is a reincarnated spirit, and undertakes a long, arduous pilgrimage to the holy places of India, where, in the climactic scene, he encounters her once more, only to have his newfound beliefs shattered and his life bereft of all meaning. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE DECAY OF THE ANGEL
The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and educates the boy, yet watches him, waiting. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty. This powerful story of dedication and sacrifice brings together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religion and national history to dazzling effect. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) FORBIDDEN COLOURS
Written when Mishima was only twenty six, Forbidden Colours is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann's Death in Venice, the older man's longing for the beauty of youth is associated with aestheticism and death. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man’s obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully. Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto’s famous Golden Temple. While an acolyte at the temple, he fixates on the structure’s aesthetic perfection and it becomes his one and only object of desire. But as Mizoguchi begins to perceive flaws in the temple, he determines that the only true path to beaut...
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(P/B) CONFESSIONS OF A MASK
This autobiographical novel, regarded as Mishima's finest book, is the haunting story of a Japanese boy's development toward a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War. Detailing his progress from an isolated childhood through adolescence to manhood, including an abortive love affair with a classmate's sister, it reports the inner life of a boy's preoccupation with death. This fourth reprint attests to the power of the novel's enduring themes of fantasy, despair and alienation. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA

(P/B) PATRIOTISM (BIBELOTS / SERIES)

ΜΕΤΑ ΤΟ ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΟ

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