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Title: Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima ISBN: 0-679-72241-6 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 April, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful, moving, delicate, and unforgettable.
Comment: Spring Snow is a dramatic, moving work that helps codify Mishima's tetralogy, the Sea of Fertility, as perhaps the 20th century's greatest magnum opus. Mishima writes in a delicately impressionistic style, employing similes and metaphors of subtle, almost fragile beauty, that create a vivid and harmonic unity that simply inspire awe. Like Dante, he moves the reader's spirit as his characters spirits evolve. Like Dostoyevsky, he plunges relentlessly into the dark caprices of the mind. Like Milton, his word choice was so perfect that I put down the Sea of Fertility wishing that I had written it myself.
Spring Snow, the first installment of the cycle, stands very well on its own (though its ultimate meaning can only be appreciated as the tetralogy is continued). It takes place early in 20th century Japan, a time of transition in which Japan's decreased isolation leads to a Westernization that ultimately proves Spring Snow to be an elegy for the samurai tradition. It is also a wonderful and tragic love story -- far more convincing than Romeo and Juliet -- in which an impossible and doomed love threatens the young protagonists whose wealthy families adjust to the changing sociopolitical climate of Japan.
The other three books in the cycle are (in order):
'Runaway Horses,' 'The Temple of Dawn,' and 'The Decay of the Angel'
Rating: 5
Summary: Quietly Disturbing
Comment: Mishima has the ability to get underneath the skin of his readers. What seems like an innocent and harmless story of adolescence gradually becomes one of fundamental importance. In my view, this is the most brilliant of the three Mishima novels I have read. It is a masterpiece which leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. None of Mishima's characters seem happy and even the 'heroes' are ambiguous, despite the fact that many of them are perfect in physical terms. We have to judge the character for ourselves without help, rather like a film without background music. There is a strong homo-erotic undercurrent in Mishima's work, even though the central relationship in this novel is heterosexual. The focal character, Kiyoaki, seems to be massochistic and derives a form of pleasure from his own destruction.
I would strongly recommend anyone who is interested in the complexities of relationships and the specific cultural life of Japan to read this novel. Above all, it should be read for the intricacy and skill of its literature.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mobius strip
Comment: This is the beginning of the posthumous work of Mishima. You will follow the lives of four people who got reincarnated in different time and in different place with Honda. His flowing and elegant style hits the highest and psychological descriptions, that even characters did not realized themselves so well, are so elaborated and sometimes scare us. It seems like weaving beautiful tapestry and you can feel the person of genius and bliss for enjoying the output of the genius. But you may lost at the end like this story and come back to this story again and again.
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Title: Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima ISBN: 0679722408 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima ISBN: 0679722424 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Decay of the Angel by Edward G. Seidensticker, Yukio Mishima ISBN: 0679722432 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima, Estate of Ivan Morris ISBN: 0679752706 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by John Nathan, Yukio Mishima ISBN: 0679750150 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 31 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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