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"Forest of Blooming Flowers" Author: [Japan] Yukio Mishima Publisher: Tianjin People's Publishing House
"Forest of Blooming Flowers" Author: [Japan] Yukio Mishima Publisher: Tianjin People's Publishing House
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This is a collection of short stories compiled by Yukio Mishima during his lifetime.
13 short stories, 13 kinds of life at the end of their road. Included are Mishima Yukio's tragic and high-pitched late work "Patriotism" and Kawabata Yasunari's highly praised work "Dan Jiao". Mishima Yukio: "These works honestly selected chapters that I am satisfied with."
"Forest of Flowers" is a collection of short stories compiled by Yukio Mishima himself before his death. It includes 13 representative short stories from different periods, which contain the literary themes and the budding of real problems in Yukio Mishima's life. It includes "Forest of Flowers", his famous work written at the age of 16, "Tojokai" and "The Sea and Sunset", the ultimate aesthetic works, "Danjiao", which Yasunari Kawabata liked the most, and "Patriotism", a late work that shows the spirit of samurai and is tragic and high-pitched. It presents the forms of works of Yukio Mishima in various periods of his creative career, with exquisite structure, classic and readable, and highlights the unique aesthetics of Japanese literature and Yukio Mishima.
Editor's Recommendation:
◆ Yukio Mishima is a famous Japanese literary master, known as the "Japanese Hemingway". He has been shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times and enjoys a high reputation in the international literary world. He is the contemporary Japanese writer whose works have been translated into the most foreign languages including English.
◆ Yukio Mishima wrote 21 novels, more than 80 short stories, 33 plays, and a large number of essays. In his memory, the Yamanashi Prefecture of Japan has set up the Yukio Mishima Literary Museum, and the Japan New Wave Literature Promotion Association established the Yukio Mishima Literary Award in 1988.
◆ "Forest of Blooming Flowers" is a collection of short stories compiled by Yukio Mishima himself during his lifetime, which includes 13 representative short stories from different periods.
◆ Yukio Mishima: "In my youth, I devoted myself to poetry and short stories, which contained my sorrows and joys... These works honestly selected the chapters that I was satisfied with."
◆ Included in the collection is the chapter "Patriotism", a tragic and high-pitched story that presents Mishima's attitude towards life and death, and also foreshadows Mishima's final outcome.
◆ The included chapter "Forest of Blooming Flowers" is Yukio Mishima's famous work written when he was 16 years old. The text is beautiful and the imagination is broad, presenting the loneliness of the protagonist.
◆ The included chapter "Dan Jiao" is a work that Yasunari Kawabata likes very much. It tells the story of dreams and reality, and the misunderstanding between people.
◆ The included article "Yuancheng Hui" is absolutely beautiful and elegant, with delicate feelings. Some of them are missed because they are extremely beautiful because they have room for imagination.
◆ The famous translator Chen Dewen’s newly revised translation in 2020 also includes a postscript written by Yukio Mishima himself, highlighting his unique aesthetics.
◆ A famous designer designed the cover, using color matching and Yukio Mishima's portrait to highlight the splendor of the author and the work itself.
◆ The book includes a chronology of Yukio Mishima, which can be used to better understand the book in conjunction with his 45-year life journey.
About the Author
◆ About the Author:
Mishima Yukio (みしまゆきお):
1925.01.14-1970.11.25
Japanese literary master, known as the "Japanese Hemingway"
His real name is Hiraoka Kimitake, and he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo).
During his lifetime, he wrote twenty-one novels, more than eighty short stories, thirty-three plays, and a large number of essays.
He has been shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
In his memory, the Yukio Mishima Literature Museum is located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The Japan New Wave Literature Promotion Association established the Yukio Mishima Literature Award in 1988 to reward cutting-edge works that open up the future of literature.
Yasunari Kawabata: "My Nobel Prize should have been awarded to Yukio Mishima. A writer as talented as him is hard to come by once every two or three hundred years."
Representative works:
"The Flowering Forest" (1944)
Confessions of a Mask (1949)
The Tide (1954)
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956)
Spring Snow (1969)
◆ Translator introduction:
Chen Dewen:
Japanese literature translator
Graduated from the Department of Oriental Languages and Japanese Studies, Peking University
Currently a full-time professor at Aichi Bunkyo University, Japan
He has translated works by many famous writers including Natsume Soseki, Kawabata Yasunari, and Mishima Yukio.
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