Star
Star

Author: Yukio Mishima

Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, 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?

The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Author: Yukio Mishima

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-01-26

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1407054112

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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

Persona
Persona

Author: Naoki Inose

Publisher: Stone Bridge Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 866

ISBN-13: 1611720087

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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.

Life for Sale
Life for Sale

Author: Yukio Mishima

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0525565159

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“A propulsive, madcap story” (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. • "An outstanding writer not only of Japan, but of the world." —The Atlantic After salaryman Hanio Yamada puts his life up for sale, interested parties quickly come calling with increasingly bizarre requests. 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

Author: Yukio Mishima

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780811201186

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The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.

Sun & Steel
Sun & Steel

Author: Yukio Mishima

Publisher: New York : Grove Press

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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Consists of a series of essays

The Sound of Waves
The Sound of Waves

Author: Yukio Mishima

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0307834344

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A timeless story of first love set in a remote fishing village in Japan. • "A story that is both happy and a work of art.... Altogether a joyous and lovely thing." —The New York Times A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.

The Temple of Dawn
The Temple of Dawn

Author: Yukio Mishima

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0307834328

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The third novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, in which a brilliant lawyer will go to nearly any length to discover whether a young Thai princess is in fact the reincarnated spirit of his childhood friend. • “Surpassingly chilling, subtle, and original.” —The New York Times Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant lawyer, is granted an audience with a young Thai princess—an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. In spite of all reason, he is convinced she is the reincarnated spirit of his friend Kiyoaki. As Honda goes to great lengths to discover for certain if his theory is correct, The Temple of Dawn becomes the story of one man’s obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment.

Patriotism
Patriotism

Author: Yukio Mishima

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780811213127

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'Was it death he was now waiting for? Or a wild ecstasy of the senses?' For the young army officer of Yukio Mishima's seminal story, 'Patriotism, ' death and ecstasy become elementally intertwined. With his unique rigor and passion, Mishima hones in on the body as the great tragic stage for all we call social, ritual, political.

Silk and Insight
Silk and Insight

Author: Yukio Mishima

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-04-08

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1317459911

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This is a tale based on the strike which took place in the mid-1950s at Omi Kenshi, a silk manufacturer not far from Tokyo. The events described reflect the management / labour tensions of the period and is a piece of social commentary on the transformation of Japanese business.