Death in Midsummer Yukio Mishima

Name: Death in Midsummer By Yukio Mishima
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Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima

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Summary

Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art.

Death in Midsummer Summary

Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories by Yukio Mishima

Nine of Yukio Mishima's finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are sophisticated modern Japanese who turn out to be not so liberated from the past as they had thought.

Death in Midsummer Reviews

In Death in Midsummer Yukio Mishima unfolds to English-language readers a range of his talents as he explores a variety of pathways into the complex Japanese personality. He can be funny, even hilarious, but he is also capable of plunging into the dark psychic depths achieved by Hitchcock. -- Robert Trumbull - The New York Times Book Review
When I read a writer such as Mishima I'm not only experiencing a narrative but also dueling with another darkness behind the words. A seemingly empty house haunted with invisible presences obtusely felt, and the tingle of awareness that someone else is in it, watching. -- Benjamin Hale - n+1
Genius...Yukio Mishima is one of the great writers of the 20th-century. An extraordinary mind. -- The Los Angeles Times

About Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) completed his first novel the year he entered the University of Tokyo and his last novel the day of his death. He is the author of numerous novels, stories, plays, and essays. Gore Vidal once said of him: I only regret we never met, for friends found him a good companion, a fine drinking partner, and fun to cruise with. Mishima committed suicide by ceremonial seppuku after a failed coup d'etat intended to restore pre-WWII power to the emperor of Japan.

Additional information

Sku

GOR002201372

ISBN 13

9780811201179

ISBN 10

0811201171

Title

Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories by Yukio Mishima

Author

Yukio Mishima

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Year published

19660201

Number of pages

192

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