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9784770028938
ISBN:4770028938
Publisher: Kodansha America, Incorporated Summary: "Most of the elements in Yukio Mishima's novels and in his own brief, dazzling life--homoeroticism, women as objects, muscle sports, worship of the body, death games--are foretold in 'Acts of Worship,' a thoughtful collection of the Japanese writer's short fiction....The seven stories in 'Acts of Worship' affirm his strengths. He captured the mood of a generation in transition from the rubble of defeat to the trouble [read more]- 30-Day No-Hassle Returns
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9784770028938
ISBN:
4770028938
Publisher: Kodansha America, Incorporated
"Most of the elements in Yukio Mishima's novels and in his own brief, dazzling life--homoeroticism, women as objects, muscle sports, worship of the body, death games--are foretold in 'Acts of Worship,' a thoughtful collection of the Japanese writer's short fiction....The seven stories in 'Acts of Worship' affirm his strengths. He captured the mood of a generation in transition from the rubble of defeat to the troubled personal conduct caused by a changing postwar society....At the same time that the short stories in 'Acts of Worship' are peculiarly Japanese in settings and attitudes, they convey a universality of emotion that American readers can find enlightening about a changing, ordered society--even possibly about their own."
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