The Frolic of the Beasts
$25.84
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2019
Summary
Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beasts tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, Koji; his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakado; and Ippei’s beautiful, enigmatic wife, Yuko. When brought face-to-face with one of Ippei’s many marital indiscretions, Koji finds his growing desire for Yuko compels him to action in a way that changes all three of their lives profoundly.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241386705 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241386705 |
| Author: | Yukio Mishima, Andrew Clare |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 138g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 129mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Mishima is the Japanese Hemingway
This morose little gem boasts its share of sensuous depravity * Wall Street Journal *
Mishima was one of literature’s great romantics, a tragedian with a heroic sensibility, an intellectual, an esthete, a man steeped in Western letters who toward the end of his life became a militant Japanese nationalist * New York Times *
Mishima is the Japanese Hemingway * Life Magazine *
A writer of immense energy and ability * Time Out *
A sexually and psychologically complex novel… in a honed translation by Andrew Clare
– Damian Flanagan * TLS *About The Author
Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of Japan’s most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests, besides writing, included body-building, acting and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realizing this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature three times.
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