Mishima [miśima] Yukio, właśc. Hiraoka Kimitake, ur. 14 I 1925, Tokio, zm. 25 XI 1970, tamże, japoński prozaik, dramatopisarz i eseista;
prowadził działalność polit. w duchu nacjonalizmu i szowinizmu; popełnił samobójstwo (seppuku) po nieudanej próbie przewrotu wojsk.; jego twórczość lit., charakteryzująca się wnikliwą analizą psychol., łączy rodzime i eur. techniki i wątki lit.; powieści Kamen-no kokuhaku [wyznanie maski] (1951), Kinjiki [zakazane kolory] (1951), Kinkakuji [złoty pawilon] (1957), Hojo-no umi [płodne morze] (t. 1–4 1970); sztuki teatr. nawiązujące do teatru no (jednoaktówki Wachlarz, Jesteś piękna, Adamaszkowy bębenek 1956, wyst. pol. 1965), opowiadania.
In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because ...
A tale of youth and warped masculinity, this is the suspenseful, lyrical and page-turning Japanese classic.
A band of thirteen-year-old boys reject ...
The second novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetraology
The second book in Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetraology - this is a story of political ...
The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology.
It is the 1960s and Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old ...
In a remote fishing village in Japan, two very different young people fall in love.
Shinji is a hard-working fisherman, Hatsue is the beautiful daughter ...
'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'
A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body ...
Etsuko is a trapped woman who lays traps for others...
After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house ...
Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books.
Translated into ...
The third novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetralogy
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"Słońce i stal" - pierwszy polski przekład klasycznego, autobiograficznego i kontrowersyjnego eseju Yukio Mishimy, w którym koncentruje ...