"Running Horse" Author: [Japan] Yukio Mishima Publisher: Liaoning People's Publishing House

The Four Parts of the Sea of ​​Plenty - The Final Work

【Editor's recommendation】

The four parts of the series are respectively about "Wa-kon", "Ara-kon", "Ki-kon" and "Kyou-kon". These "four souls" interpret four kinds of life through the cycle of life and death, forming a spiral cyclical world.

This work, which the Japanese call "the great river novel", interrogates the fundamental issues in life one by one, such as survival, love, war, death and fate with Buddha, and finally interprets the theme of "everything in the world is an illusion, and life is nothingness". Mishima Yukio himself believes that the world looks like a magnificent "sea of ​​abundance" on the surface, but in fact it is a moon sea without water or air. Although it is called "abundant", it is actually scarce.

"The suffocation in the book is due to the author's fierce struggle with the emptiness in his heart." - Shibusawa Ryuhiko

【Content Introduction】

The second of the four-part series "Sea of ​​Plenty" - the most controversial and surprising novel of heroic sacrifice

"I was born for fantasy, acted for fantasy, and was punished for fantasy... I really want something that is not fantasy."

The entire novel is centered around the story of the protagonist of the previous volume, Kiyoaki Matsueda, who is "reincarnated" as Isao Iinuma.

In 1932, Honda Shigekuni was 38 years old and his career was going smoothly. It had been 19 years since his close friend Kiyoaki Matsueda passed away.

The reincarnated boy - 19-year-old Xun is a Japanese kendo master. This energetic young man is extremely hostile to the Japanese society at that time and hates the capitalist group composed of financial giants. He is obsessed with reviving the emperor's reputation and regards "The History of the Kamikaze Company" as his life ideal. He wants to die to save Japan from "distress"...

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.