Yukio Mishima: Sea of ​​Plenty

Yukio Mishima is the most famous and widely read Japanese writer in the world. He became equally famous both for his works in all conceivable genres (novels, plays, short stories, essays) and for his extravagant lifestyle and death (hara-kiri after an unsuccessful attempt at a monarchical coup). Tetralogy "Sea of ​​Abundance" is the pinnacle of Mishima's writing and a kind of creative testament; this is a work in which Mishima, in his words, "expressed all his ideas" and after which he had "nothing to write about." Having completed the last novel of the tetralogy, he put an end to his life. "Sea of ​​Plenty" contains the quintessence of Mishima's own aesthetic system, combining samurai-Shinto elements with images of European antiquity, the influence of esoteric Buddhism and even Hinduism. The theme of death and beauty has always been the cornerstone of this aesthetic; Mishima's heroes are trying to comprehend the terrible and indefinable mystery of beauty, which exists outside of morality and ethics, capable of enslaving and destroying the human personality. The plot of "Sea of ​​Abundance" is based on the idea of ​​reincarnation, consistently revealed through the story of tragic love, idealistic self-sacrifice, mystical obsession, disillusionment...

Translation: Elena Strugova

Pages: 1088 (offset). Hard cover

Dimensions: 140x210 mm

Series: Foreign Literature. big books