{"product_id":"the-sailor-who-fell-from-grace-with-the-sea-yukio-mishima","title":"The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful hardback edition of the great Japanese classic\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tale of youth and warped masculinity, rediscover the suspenseful and deeply ominous classic with this special edition\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 144 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65795105685853,"sku":"K096949120","price":18.7,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9694912000001A.jpg?v=1788398945","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-sailor-who-fell-from-grace-with-the-sea-yukio-mishima","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}