Star

A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary iconbr>br>All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention. They would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells "action"; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions.br>br>Written shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film Afraid to Die, this novella is a rich and unflinching psychological portrait of a celebrity coming apart at the seams as the absurdity of his existence comes sharply into focus. With exquisite, vivid prose, Star begs the question: is there ever any escape from how we are seen by others?>

Product details

• Authors: Yujio Mishima, Yukio Mishima
• Assisted by: Jonathan Samuel Bett (Translation), Sam Bett (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780241383476
• ISBN: 978-0-241-38347-6
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 161 mm x 7 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary