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Mishima yukio 19251970 pseudonym of hiraoka kimitake. A band of savage thirteenyearold boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they c. Al menos yukio mishima lo salpico todo con su espectacular y heroico seppuku. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 463 pages and is available in paperback format. Yukio mishima, quote from spring snow the thirteenyearold boys cheeks were flushed with the wine that his father, half as a joke, had forced upon him. Again we encounter shigekuni honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend kiyoaki matsugae.
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It is a novel that is essentially dichotomous, rooted in western literary tradition, yet still essentially japanese, it combines a western style of writing with eastern philosophical themes and beautiful, idiosyncratic japanese. By using a historical approach, with each of these novels taking place later than the previous one, and by repeating his characters, mishima allows the reader to see japanese cultural and social. The first novel of mishimas landmark tetralogy, the sea of fertilityspring snow is set in tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is. Here, shigekuni honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of kiyoaki matsugae, his childhood friend.
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