La decomposizione dell'angelo

This is the fourth and final volume in Mishima’s tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Class divisions and changing values in Japan due to western influence are major themes. Another theme all the way through the series is reincarnation. In Decay of the Angel, the reincarnated spirit is an orphan. He has Leggi tutto

A strange, swift landing to the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, and a book that can't help but be altered by the fact that Mishima's strange, ritualistic suicide occurred the day after he handed it in, on the date on the last page of the mansucript. There is a lot to like in this volume, which cleverly

What’s this one about, do you suppose? There is in all translations of Mishima’s work I have read—by a host of translators—a fundamental woodeness or clunkiness of description, especially in his philosophical flights. In Japan he is often referred to as a stylist with a penchant for archaic Japanese Leggi tutto

خیلی به خودم افتخار میکنم که این چهارگانه رو خوندم و بدون پشیمونی پول و وقتمو خرج این چهارگانه کردم. عنوان این چهارگانه: برف بهاری اسبهای لگام گسیخته معبد سپیده دم زوال فرشته راستش من برای هیچ کدوم ریویو ننوشتم همش تنبلی میکردم😁 اما واقعا من لذت بردم از قلم میشیما هرچقدر هم بگم که گفتم البته از نظر من چ Leggi tutto

I waited for Satoko's return from the moment I finished 'Spring Snow'. Books 2 and 3 of this tetralogy were a struggle, but Mishima really knows what a great ending is, and he delivers one of the best I've ever read with this one.

WISHFUL THINKING 1970, Honda is now 80. He meets Toru, a young signalman he immediately surmises to be a reincarnation of Ying Chan, Isao and his deceased friend Kiyoaki. A contemplative orphan, Toru also looks like Honda in terms of personality. Honda decides to adopt him, paving the way for a merci Leggi tutto