Death in Midsummer Author: [Japan] Yukio Mishima Translator: Chen Dewen Publisher: Liaoning People's Publishing House

"My youth was all dark storm."

"Death in Midsummer" was created in 1952 and contains a total of 11 short stories written by Yukio Mishima when he was 21 to 38 years old.

The title work "Death in Midsummer" was conceived by the author based on a true story he heard in Kanaihama, Izu. It observes the reality of death from a third-party perspective and describes the pain, healing and emptiness suffered by the heroine Asako under a terrible fate.

Cigarette is his masterpiece, highly recommended by Yasunari Kawabata. These early technical experimental short stories depict the reality of post-war Japanese society and culture, as well as the mentality of the Japanese people as they walked out of the shadow of war - finding a balance between order and collapse.

Harsh な destiny と そ れ を ride り え た 后 に visit れ る emptiness の essence や meaning を story に し て い ま す

Mishima's highest ・ベストとreview価の高いエッセイのelementsも生り込まれた masterpiece short series と言われています.

The eternal calamity of adolescence

Mishima Yukio

(1925-1970), formerly known as Hiraoka Kimitake, is a contemporary Japanese novelist, playwright, and film actor. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature many times. This outlier in the Japanese literary world worshipped martyrdom-like death throughout his life. In his short life, he tried his best to interpret the diversity of beauty with words. Donald Keane, an American authority on Japanese literature, believes that Mishima is "an unparalleled genius writer in the world."

Chen Dewen

Born in Pi County, Jiangsu Province, he is a professor at Nanjing University. He graduated from the Department of Oriental Languages ​​and Literature of Peking University with a major in Japanese in 1965. In 1985, he went to Waseda University for study and research. He is currently a full-time professor at Aichi Bunkyo University in Japan. He has translated and published many famous works by famous Japanese writers.