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1. Spring Snow

   • Yukio Mishima

   • 376pagine
   • 14 ore di lettura

   The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertility Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders -- rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Among this rising new elite are the ambitious Matsugae, whose son has been raised in a family of the waning aristocracy, the elegant and attenuated Ayakura. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new -- fiercely loving and hating the exquisite, spirited Ayakura Satoko. He suffers in psychic paralysis until the shock of her engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion, and leads to a love affair that is as doomed as it was inevitable.

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2. The Sea of Fertility - 2: Runaway Horses

   Second Novel In The Sea Of Fertility Tetralogy

   • Yukio Mishima

   • 432pagine
   • 16 ore di lettura

   Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor's rightful power. As the conspiracy unfolds and unravels, Mishima brilliantly chronicles the conflicts of a decade that saw the fabric of Japanese life torn apart.

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3. Temple of Dawn

   • Yukio Mishima

   • 320pagine
   • 12 ore di lettura

   Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility . Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant lawyer, is granted an audience with a young Thai princess—an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. In spite of all reason, he is convinced she is the reincarnated spirit of his friend Kiyoaki. As Honda goes to great lengths to discover for certain if his theory is correct, The Temple of Dawn becomes the story of one man’s obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment.

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4. I grandi tascabili - 354: Lo specchio degli inganni

   • Yukio Mishima

   • 240pagine
   • 9 ore di lettura

   Quarto capitolo della tetralogia 'Il mare della fertilità' dello scrittore giapponese. Insieme alla vita dello scrittore, termina anche la storia del vecchio Honda, protagonista dei quattro romanzi, e ora alle prese con i fantasmi della sua esistenza, irretito in un gioco di inganni della mente. Nel giovane Toru ha creduto di vedere la terza reincarnazione dell'amato Kiyoaki, dopo Isao e Ying Chan. E piano piano il dubbio si insinua nel disperato Honda: il dubbio che Kiyoaki e le sue reincarnazioni non siano mai esistiti, che la sua vita sia stata soltanto illusione.

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