The Frolic of the Beasts

Koji, a young student, has fallen hopelessly in love with the beautiful, enigmatic Yuko. But she is married to the literary critic and serial philanderer Ippei. Tormented by desire and anger, Koji is driven to an act of violence that will bind this strange, terrible love triangle together for the rest of their lives. A starkly compelling story of lust, guilt and punishment, The Frolic of the Beasts explores the masks we wear in life, and what happens when they slip.

''One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century'' - New Yorker

Translated by Andrew Clare<>

Product details

• Authors: Yukio Mishima
• Assisted by: Andrew Clare (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.11.2023
• EAN: 9780241675311
• ISBN: 978-0-241-67531-1
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Japanese Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1940 to c 1949, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / World Literature / Japan