Star: Yukio Mishima (Penguin Modern) - Softcover

Mishima, Yukio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241383471 ISBN 13: 9780241383476

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2019

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Críticas:

A stunning addition to the oeuvre of one of postwar Japan's greatest storytellers (Wall Street Journal)

Mishima's novels exude a monstrous and compulsive weirdness, and seem to take place in a kind of purgatory for the depraved (Angela Carter)

Mishima was one of literature's great romantics, a tragedian with a heroic sensibility, an intellectual, an esthete, a man steeped in Western letters who toward the end of his life became a militant Japanese nationalist (New York Times)

Mishima is the Japanese Hemingway (Life Magazine)

A writer of immense energy and ability (Time Out)

Reseña del editor:

A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary icon

All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention. They would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells "action"; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions.

Written shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film Afraid to Die, this novella is a rich and unflinching psychological portrait of a celebrity coming apart at the seams as the absurdity of his existence comes sharply into focus. With exquisite, vivid prose, Star begs the question: is there ever any escape from how we are seen by others?

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• Verlag: Penguin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0241383471
• ISBN 13: 9780241383476
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64