Name: The Sailor who Fell From Grace With the sea
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Author: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780679750154

portada The Sailor who Fell From Grace With the sea

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yukio Mishima

Translated by

John Nathan

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1994

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.5 x 13.3 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

0679750150

ISBN13

9780679750154

Synopsis "The Sailor who Fell From Grace With the sea"

Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world -- to them, adult life is illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental. When Noboru's widowed mother is romanced by Ryuji, a sailor, Noboru is thrilled. He idolizes this rugged man of the sea as a hero. But his admiration soon turns to hatred, as Ryuji forsakes life onboard the ship for marriage, rejecting everything Noboru holds sacred. Upset and appalled, he and his friends respond to this apparent betrayal with a terrible ferocity.

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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