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"Spring Snow" Author: [Japanese] Mishima Yukio Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company
"Spring Snow" Author: [Japanese] Mishima Yukio Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"He died for his students and for literature."
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Japanese literary giant Yukio Mishima
The famous Japanese literature translator Chen Dewen contributed his translation
Mishima's greatest literary masterpiece, the "Sea of Fertility" tetralogy
"Spring Snow", "Running Horse", "Dawn Temple", "The Five Decays of a Celestial Being"
Presenting Mishima's extremely romantic, aesthetic and classical spiritual world
【Content Introduction】
The four-part series "Sea of Fertility" is the culmination of Yukio Mishima's aesthetic thoughts. This work is large-scale and covers a long period of time. It examines the fundamental issues in life one by one and is a panoramic masterpiece. The four-part series can be said to reflect the basic characteristics of Mishima's aesthetic thoughts and all his creations. All the things and thoughts in his own world are integrated into this work. It is grand in scope and profound in thought, and the writing is vast. It is also recognized by Japanese critics as the highest masterpiece of his literary career.
Mishima said that "The Sea of Fertility" is based on the philosophy of Yogācāra, with the "Hamamatsu Chuanagon Monogatari" of Dynasty Literature as a reference system, and is written with dreams and reincarnation as the keynote. Starting from the reincarnation of the protagonist in each volume, each volume tells a life, forming four novels with completely independent backgrounds and stories. The first volume, "Spring Snow", is a classical love novel that describes the aristocratic society in the first year of the Taisho era (1912). The second volume, "Running Horse", is a heroic action novel that describes the nationalist movement in the sixth and seventh years of the Showa era (1931-1932). The third volume, "Akatsuki Temple", is a psychological novel with exotic colors. The fourth volume, "The Five Decays of the Celestial Being", is a novel based on the tracking and tracing of events at a certain point in the passage of time.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Author: Mishima Yukio (みしまゆきお1925-1970)
His real name is Hiraoka Kimio. He is one of the masters of postwar Japanese literature, a novelist and dramatist. Yukio Mishima is known as the "prodigy of traditional Japanese literature", "Hemingway of Japan" and "Da Vinci of contemporary Japan". He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature many times and is the contemporary Japanese writer whose works have been translated into English and other foreign languages the most. In order to commemorate him, Japan also has the Yukio Mishima Literary Museum and founded the Yukio Mishima Award in 1988. Mishima's major works include "Confessions of a Mask", "The Tide of the Waves", "The Hunger of Love", "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", "Spring Snow", "Running Horse", "The Temple of the Akatsuki", "The Five Decays of the Celestial Being", etc.
Translator: Chen Dewen
Born in 1940, from Pi County, Jiangsu Province. Professor of Nanjing University, translator. He has translated and published many famous works of Japanese literary masters, including more than ten novels by Natsume Soseki, Shimazaki Toson, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, and others, as well as the prose collections of Matsuo Basho, Koda Rohan, Shimazaki Toson, Nagai Kafu, Tanizaki Junichiro, Higashiyama Kaii, and a large number of prose works by hundreds of Japanese writers.
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