Forbidden Colours
$27.21
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
18 November 2008
Summary
Forbidden Colours: A Symphony of Beauty and Decay
A Japanese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics.
Written when Mishima was only twenty-six, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann’s Death in Venice, the older man’s longing for the beauty of youth is associated with aestheticism and death.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141189567 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141189568 |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Author: | Yukio Mishima, Alfred H. Marks |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 18 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 316g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 128mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) is considered by many critics as the most important Japanese novelist of the 20th century. Mishima’s works include 40 novels, poetry, essays, and modern Kabuki and Noh dramas. He was three times nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature. Among his masterpieces is The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956). The tetralogy The Sea of Fertility (1965-70) is regarded by many as Mishima’s most lasting achievement.
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