Name: The Decay of the Angel: The sea of Fertility, 4: No 4
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Author: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780679722434

portada The Decay of the Angel: The sea of Fertility, 4: No 4

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yukio Mishima

Translated by

Edward G. Seidensticker

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1990

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.3 x 1.7 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN

0679722432

ISBN13

9780679722434

Synopsis "The Decay of the Angel: The sea of Fertility, 4: No 4"

Yukio Mishima's The Decay of the Angel is the final novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. It is the last installment of Shigekuni Honda's pursuit of the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. It is the late 1960s and Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, once more encounters a person he believes to be a reincarnation of his friend, Kiyoaki -- this time restored to life as a teenage orphan, Tōru. Adopting the boy as his heir, Honda quickly finds that Tōru is a force to be reckoned with. The final novel of this celebrated tetralogy weaves together the dominant themes of the previous three novels in the series: the decay of Japan's courtly tradition; the essence and value of Buddhist philosophy and aesthetics; and, underlying all, Mishima's apocalyptic vision of the modern era.

Yukio Mishima

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Yukio Mishima (nombre literario) nació como Kimitake Hiroaka en Tokio en 1925 y se suicidó en 1970 en protesta por el fin del Japón tradicional. Estuvo nominado para el premio Nobel, pero fue después de su muerte cuando alcanzó fama internacional. Mishima vivió, como tantos japoneses de su generación, el embate de dos modelos de cultura: la occidental y la propia y milenaria del Japón. Escritor plural y fecundo, Confesiones de una máscara, su primer éxito notable, le hizo famoso con tan sólo veinticuatro años.

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