{"product_id":"the-sailor-who-fell-from-grace-with-the-sea-yukio-mishima-9780099284796","title":"The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoboru spies on his widowed mother, Fusako Kuroda, as she begins a relationship with Ryuji Tsukazaki, a merchant sailor he idolises as a hero.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in post-war Yokohama, Japan, in the late 1950s, \u003ci\u003eThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace from the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e follows thirteen-year-old Noboru and a secret gang of schoolboys who have sworn to reject the adult world as sentimental and corrupt. Under the cold authority of their leader, they train themselves in what they call 'objectivity,' suppressing emotion in favour of ruthless judgement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Ryuji abandons the sea to pursue a settled life with Fusako, Noboru and the boys see this not as love, but as weakness. The sailor they once revered becomes, in their eyes, a traitor to heroic masculinity. Their disillusionment curdles into a calculated plan to restore what they believe is honour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs twentieth-century Japanese historical fiction grounded in the social aftermath of the Second World War, \u003ci\u003eThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace from the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e builds towards an act of chilling violence, exposing adolescent absolutism, misogyny, and the fragile myth of male heroism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYukio Mishima\u003c\/b\u003e was born into a samurai family and imbued with the code of complete control over mind and body, and loyalty to the Emperor - the same code that produced the austerity and self-sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless short stories and thirty-three plays, in some of which he acted. Several films have been made from his novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Waves; Enjo,\u003c\/i\u003e which was based on T\u003ci\u003ehe Temple of the Golden Pavilion\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his other works are the novels \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Mask \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThirst For Love\u003c\/i\u003e and the short-story collections \u003ci\u003eDeath in Midsummer \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eActs of Worship\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sea of Fertility tetralogy\u003c\/i\u003e, however, is his masterpiece. After Mishima conceived the idea of \u003ci\u003eThe Sea of Fertility\u003c\/i\u003e in 1964, he frequently said he would die when it was completed. On November 25th, 1970, the day he completed \u003ci\u003eThe Decay of the Angel\u003c\/i\u003e, the last novel of the cycle, Mishima committed \u003ci\u003eseppuku\u003c\/i\u003e (ritual suicide) at the age of forty-five.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 144 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65908470088029,"sku":"K029994585","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/2999458500001A.jpg?v=1789293085","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-sailor-who-fell-from-grace-with-the-sea-yukio-mishima-9780099284796","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}