Yukio Mishima: Death in Midsummer, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Death in Midsummer
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 05/2024
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780241678947
- Item number:
- 11618704
- Volume:
- 208 Pages
- Weight:
- 200 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 15 mm
- Release date:
- 2.5.2024
- Series:
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Note
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Blurb
Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writers
It was the height of summer, and there was anger in the rays of the sun
A summer holiday that turns to tragedy; a moonlit journey to fulfil a wish; a couple's unusual way of making a living; a young lieutenant who ends his life; a night of infidelities. This selection contains nine short stories and one modern Noh play by one of Japan's greatest writers. Selected by Mishima himself for translation, they are by turns tender and delicate, ironic and shocking, showing the strange pull between duty and desire, death and beauty.
'He can be funny, even hilarious, but he is also capable of plunging into the dark psychic depths achieved by Hitchcock' New York Times Book Review
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker, Ivan Morris, Donald Keene and Geoffrey W. Sargent
Biography
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) wurde nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zum Sprecher der jungen Generation, deren Heimatlosigkeit er zum Thema seines Werkes machte. Mit den vier großen Romanen "Schnee im Frühling", "Unter dem Sturmgott", "Der Tempel der Morgendämmerung" und "Die Todesmale des Engels", zusammengefasst unter dem Obertitel "Das Meer der Fruchtbarkeit", schloß er sein literarisches Werk ab, bevor er sich 1970 das Leben nahm.
