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Yukio Mishima

Born

in Tokyo, Japan

January 14, 1925

Died

November 25, 1970

Website

http://www.mishimayukio.jp/index.html

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Sui Generis

Influences

Thomas Mann, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Yasunari Kawabata, Fyodor Dostoyevsk ...more

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Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima ...more

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Yukio Mishima’s books

Average rating: 3.9 · 211,721 ratings · 20,532 reviews · 422 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, John Nathan (Translator) 3.85 avg rating — 41,376 ratings — published 1963 — 148 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Confessions of a Mask 3.95 avg rating — 30,777 ratings — published 1949 — 193 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 19,236 ratings — published 1967 — 128 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima, Ivan Morris (Translation) 3.98 avg rating — 19,937 ratings — published 1956 — 214 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sound of Waves 3.78 avg rating — 19,577 ratings — published 1954 — 142 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life for Sale 3.73 avg rating — 8,773 ratings — published 1968 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility, #2) 4.22 avg rating — 7,514 ratings — published 1969 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sun & Steel by Yukio Mishima, John Bester (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 5,513 ratings — published 1968 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thirst for Love 3.64 avg rating — 5,869 ratings — published 1950 — 105 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima, Donald Keene (Translator), Ivan Morris (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 4,968 ratings — published 1953 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Yukio Mishima

The Sea of Fertility (4 books)
by

Yukio Mishima,

Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

4.13 avg rating — 36,821 ratings

Quotes by Yukio Mishima (?)

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
― Yukio Mishima

tags: beauty, cruelty, love

795 likes

“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

tags: knowledge, stillness, transformation

536 likes

“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

tags: sense-of-wonder

480 likes

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Polls

Ekim 2020 - Modern klasik okuması
Ekim ayında grupla birlikte hangi kitabı okumak istersiniz?

İnsanlığımı Yitirirken - Osamu Dazai, 116 sayfa, 1948

22 votes 44.9%

Bahar Karları - Yukio Mishima, 416 sayfa, 1968

20 votes 40.8%

Kurbanı Beslemek - Kenzaburō Ōe, 224 sayfa, 1966

4 votes 8.2%

Yengeç Konserveleme Gemisi - Takiji Kobayashi, 160 sayfa, 1929

3 votes 6.1%

49 total votes

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