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UnderworldAmusements
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New Arrival❗️

Writer, actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima was arguably the most famous person in Japan at the time of his death.

In this insightful and empathetic look at the writer, Stokes guides the reader through the milestones of Mishima's eclectic career and delves into the artist's major works and themes.

https://underworldamusements.com/products/the-life-and-death-of-yukio-mishima-he...

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Javierdelara
Sun & Steel | Yukio Mishima, Mishima

¡Qué ironía! En un período en que el cáliz sin futuro de la catástrofe estaba a rebosar, yo había superado las pruebas para beber de él. Me había ido lejos, y cuando, tras un prolongado adiestramiento, había vuelto pertrechado con todas las aptitudes necesarias, fue para encontrar el cáliz vacío, fríamente visible su fondo; y yo con más de cuarenta años. Por si eso fuera poco, el único líquido que podía apagar mi sed era el que otros habían apurad

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Bookwomble
Thirst for Love | Yukio Mishima
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Pickpick

The wistful feeling I felt in the opening pages didn't last long. I realise that the scene of Etsuko shopping and getting caught in the rain resonated with a childhood memory, and I'm not sure if it was evoked or invoked by Mishima.
Mishima conjured an early sympathy for Etsuko, which he deliberately destroyed in much the same way Etsuko seeks to destroy anyone who's happiness she feels as an affront to her emotional pain and spiritual void. ⬇️

Bookwomble There's nobody, really, to like in the story. Mishima sees pettiness, hypocrisy, affectation, self-absorption, indifference and/or vindictiveness in each of his characters. Perhaps Miyo's situation excites pity, but little sympathy as she's presented as something of a cypher. The final few pages are shocking, if not unexpected. An interesting and engrossing, but not exactly enjoyable, 4⭐ 12mo
BarbaraBB Fab review 12mo
LeahBergen Great review! I have this waiting on my shelves. 12mo
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Bookwomble @BarbaraBB Thank you 😊 12mo
Bookwomble @LeahBergen Thank you. I think I've been a bit harsh with Etsuko - what she does and how she treats people is pretty awful, but then she's been treated awfully herself. What goes around... 🌀 She has an arc I think you'll find interesting 🙂 12mo
The_Book_Ninja Agreed. Top review! 12mo
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Bookwomble
Thirst for Love | Yukio Mishima
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“One who pans for gold can't expect to dip up only gold, or even attempt to. He must blindly scoop the sand from the river bottom. He doesn't have the privilege of finding out in advance whether he will succeed. Maybe there's no gold in it, but maybe there is. Yet the one thing certain is that the person who doesn't pan for gold never gets any richer.”
#TheExaminedLife

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Bookwomble
Thirst for Love | Yukio Mishima
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"The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have."

The cover art of the Vintage Classics edition I have is based on this print, "Summer Kimono (In a Light Garment, a Woman from Naniwa)", by Hashiguchi Goyo.

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Bookwomble
Thirst for Love | Yukio Mishima
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"That day Etsuko went to the Hankyu department store and bought two pairs of wool socks."

A commonplace opening line, but I felt captured by this book in the first couple of pages. I'm hoping Mishima keeps it on a similar tack.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

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CoveredInRust
Star | Yukio Mishima
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Mehso-so

An interesting fictionalized look into the author's experience as an actor, but wow. What a twat.

eanderson This review cracks me up! 🤣🤣🤣 1y
CoveredInRust @eanderson 🤣🤣 I mean it with my whole heart 1y
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AnneCecilie
Beautiful Star | Yukio Mishima
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Mehso-so

A family believe that they are extraterrestrials and that they all come from different plants. But they want peace on earth. At the same time there‘s another trio who believes that they are also extraterrestrials but they want to exterminate humans.

I never got along with this novel and feel that it kept me at a distance. I don‘t think I got what the author was trying to tell but that might be because I don‘t know enough about Japan and its

AnneCecilie history. To be honest, if I hadn‘t bought this book I probably would have bailed on it. 1y
Hedon Love the cover though. 1y
AnneCecilie @Hedon The cover is amazing, that‘s what drew me to the book in the first place 1y
Librarybelle That cover is pretty cool! 1y
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CounterfeitNickel
The Sound of Waves | Yukio Mishima
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Mehso-so

The Sound of Waves is a lovely romance from Japanese legend Yukio Mishima. It takes place on a small rural island whose lives and scenery are dominated by the fish trade. The setting is lovingly rendered is sparse detail. However, this is a romance written by a man in the 50s. Descriptions of women range from passable to cringe-worthy, and there are monstrous crimes attempted which are treated as momentary lapses in character. (TW, SA)