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"Beast Play" Author: [Japan] Yukio Mishima Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
"Beast Play" Author: [Japan] Yukio Mishima Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
* The play of a beast where sweetness and killing coexist
* The world's first publication in simplified Chinese
"Beast Play" is a novel with a very personal temperament by the Japanese literary genius Yukio Mishima. In the same vein as the famous "The Hunger for Love", almost all objective entities in the novel are extremely symbolized. As Japanese literary critic Midori Tanaka said, this novel has almost allegorical problems and power, and Sumie Tanaka also said that this is a work that plays a heroic movement.
Contents:
A young man (Koji) broke into the lives of an unhappy couple (Ippei and Yuko) and fell in love with his wife. Koji was imprisoned for attacking Ippei. After he was released from prison, Yuko took him to the fishing island where the couple lived. The three of them lived together, and the quiet fishing island began to quietly permeate with a morbid atmosphere. After the attack, Ippei lost his ability to speak and became very demented. Koji decided to be a repentant person, but the relationship between the three became more ambiguous and tense than before the accident. Ippei's silence and Yuko's ambiguity pushed the restless Koji to the extreme of emotion, and eventually the three of them faced destruction...
* Mishima's "Beast Play" transcends the modern world dominated by powerlessness and decadence, isolation and barren love. He imagines the ancient world of love and death and turns the people of this world into beasts. - Yasuyuki Ogikubo
* This is a work that plays a heroic melody. ——Tanaka Sumie
* "The Beast Play" is a true work describing "love". - Akiichi Saeki
About the Author
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was a Japanese novelist and playwright. His real name was Hiraoka Kimio, and he was born in Tokyo. In 1949, he published the novel "Confessions of a Mask", which established his position in the literary world. On November 25, 1970, he committed suicide after writing the fourth part of "The Sea of Fertility", "The Five Decays of the Celestial Being". He wrote 40 novels, 20 short stories and 18 collections of plays. His major works include "Forbidden Colors", "The Wave of Tide", "Modern Noh Collection", "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" and "The Marquise de Sade".
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