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Yukio Mishima, reconocido como uno de los mas importantes novelistas y dramaturgos japoneses, fue tambien aclamado como maestro del cuento. Las diez historias que integran este volumen recogen una gran variedad de temas, que van desde el nimio incidente que trastocara las placidas relaciones de un grupo de amigas, en La perla, hasta la cruenta y ritual ceremonia del hara-kiri, a la que el mismo Mishima se someteria anos despues, o la compleja psicologia de uno de los actores que en el teatro Kabuki representa los papeles femeninos. Y junto con ellos el mundo de las geishas, la profunda espiritualidad de la religion budista, la obsesion por la muerte y el conflicto presente siempre en la vida y en la obra de Mishima de la oposicion entre las tradiciones y la modernizacion subita de un pais que trastoco en una sola generacion su modo de vida. ... Read more

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Explores the concept of nihilism and argues that it need not imply despair, but can be responded to positively. ... Read more

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Chapters: Shinji Aoyama, Yuya Sato, Ōtarō Maijō, Tomoyuki Hoshino, Genichiro Takahashi, Yoriko Shono. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Shinji Aoyama Aoyama Shinji, born July 13, 1964, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese film director and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka. Shinji Aoyama was born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, where he attended Kitakyushu Midorigaoka public junior/senior high school. He graduated in 1989 from Rikkyo University, where he majored in film studies in the department of British and American Studies. While he was a student, he was deeply influenced by the theorist and film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, from whom he took classes. After graduating, Aoyama worked as an assistant director to Swiss independent film director Daniel Schmid, Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and others. In 1995 he made his directorial debut with the V-cinema production Kyokasho ni nai! (Very Private Lesson), based on the manga publication of the same name. In 1996 Aoyama made Helpless, a film set in his native Fukuoka. His 2000 film EUREKA, also set in Fukuoka, opened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival where it received both the FIPRESCI prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. Together with the 2007 film Sad Vacation, EUREKA and Helpless comprise Aoyama's "Kitakyushu Saga." Aoyama's literary output includes his 2001 novelization of EUREKA, which won the Yukio Mishima Prize, as well as the novel Hotel Chronicles, which was nominated for the Noma Literary Prize in 2005. Shinji Aoyama is married to Japanese actress Maho Toyota. 1996 Helpless1996 Chinpira: Two Punks aka ( Chinpira)1997 Wild Life1999 Shady Grove ( Sheidii gurovu)1999 EM Embalming (...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7563765 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Runaway Horses, Spring Snow, the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, the Decay of the Angel, the Temple of Dawn, the Sound of Waves, the Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, Forbidden Colors, Thirst for Love, the Sea of Fertility, Confessions of a Mask, Kyoko's House, After the Banquet, Silk and Insight. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Runaway Horses Honba) is a 1969 novel by Yukio Mishima, the second in his Sea of Fertility tetralogy. Mishima did much research to prepare for this novel, including visiting locations recorded in the book and searching for information on the Shimpren Rebellion ( Shinpren no Ran). Set between June 1932 and December 1933, it tells the story of young Isao Iinuma, a rightist reactionary trained in the samurai code by his father. Isao becomes the instigator of a plot to topple the zaibatsu that he feels have corrupted the Yamato-damashii and betrayed the will of the Emperor. He is assured of the army's assistance by the young Lieutenant Hori. They plan to assassinate many key government figures simultaneously on December 3, 1932. Shigekuni Honda, a character who figured prominently in Spring Snow, the first novel of the cycle, appears again here as a judge and later lawyer. He comes to believe that Isao is the reincarnation of Kiyoaki Matsugae, the aristocratic schoolfriend whose story was told in Spring Snow. Realising that Isao too seems to be hurtling towards a "picturesque" death, he makes strenuous efforts to save him without revealing this personal connection. It is just after the May 15 Incident of 1932. Shigekuni Honda ( Honda Shigekuni), the law student from Spring Snow, is now a junior associate judge at the Osaka Court of Appeals. He is asked by Judge Sugawa to give an address a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1799004 ... Read more

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First published by Penguin Books in 1972, the reissue of this volume is long overdue. The book contains 37 examples of poetry and short stories by 18 acclaimed writers, including Oe Kenzaburo, Abe Kobo, Ishihara Shintaro and Mishima himself. ... Read more

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Chapters: Yukio Mishima, Zeami Motokiyo, Hideo Kanze, Kanami, Kanze Nobumitsu. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yukio Mishima Mishima Yukio) was the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka Hiraoka Kimitake, January 14, 1925November 25, 1970), a Japanese author, poet and playwright, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku. Mishima in his childhood (ca. April 1931)Mishima was born in the Yotsuya district of Tokyo (now part of Shinjuku). His father was Azusa Hiraoka, a government official, and his mother, Shizue, was the daughter of a school principal in Tokyo. His paternal grandparents were Jotar and Natsuko Hiraoka. He had a younger sister named Mitsuko, who died of typhus, and a younger brother named Chiyuki. Mishima's early childhood was dominated by the shadow of his grandmother, Natsu, who took the boy and separated him from his immediate family for several years. Natsu was the illegitimate granddaughter of Matsudaira Yoritaka, the daimyo of Shishido in Hitachi Province, and had been raised in the household of Prince Arisugawa Taruhito; she maintained considerable aristocratic pretensions even after marrying Mishima's grandfather, a bureaucrat who had made his fortune in the newly opened colonial frontier and who rose to become Governor-General of Karafuto. She was also prone to violence and morbid outbursts, which are occasionally alluded to in Mishima's works. It is to Natsu that some biographers have traced Mishima's fascination with death. Natsu did not allow Mishima to venture into the sunlight, to engage in any kind of sport or to play with other boys; he spent much of his time alone or with female cousins and their dolls. Mishima returned to his immediate family at 12. His father, a man with a taste for military discipline, employed suc...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=101631 ... Read more

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Spring Snow -- yellow and other colors
A lovely and intriguing little book, however beware that it is literally a translation in color squares. ... Read more