"Flower-filled Forest·Patriotic Concern" Author: [Japan] Yukio Mishima / Publisher: Liaoning People's Publishing House / Producer: Ichiyefuo / Original title: Flower-filled Forest·Patriotic Concern / Translator: Chen Dewen

"Love and devotion, these emotions that are too pure in reality, can only be possessed and find their correct meaning through recollection."

This book collects the works of Yukio Mishima's early "light cavalry era". He described himself as "relying on rational operation, thus tending to the hobby of short story writing": these works themselves are like a fully stretched bow, keeping the bowstring taut, and once they hit the target through the reader's mind, they become a kind of "comfort". In this "psychedelic forest" planted by Mishima, surreal illusions and poetic image metaphors can be seen everywhere.

The title work "Forest of Blooming Flowers" was Mishima Yukio's debut work when he was sixteen years old, written in 1941. In the diary of "my" ancestor, a "miracle" that was almost hallucinatory was recorded. A woman from the Heian period who had a close relationship with "my" ancestor was very afraid of the sea, while "my" grandmother's aunt had a passionate yearning for the sea when she was young. In just a few dozen pages, he spanned time and space, showing his unparalleled talent.

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.