Voices of the Fallen Heroes - And Other Stories

Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of the Japan''s most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests, besides writing, included body-building, acting and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realizing this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature three times.

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Arresting ... Here, in brutal, brilliant prose, we see a vivid manifestation of Mishima's obsession with slaughter as a form of art, one that distils his hallmark preoccupations of death and beauty into a singularly intense poetic expression ... what this fine collection consistently demonstrates is how fundamentally, disturbingly, enduringly relevant Mishima's writing remains Bryan Karetnyk Times Literary Supplement

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• Authors: Yukio Mishima
• Assisted by: Stephen Dodd (Editor), Dodd Stephen (Editor), Jeffrey Angles (Translation), Angles Jeffrey (Translation), Tomoko Aoyama (Translation), Aoyama Tomoko (Translation), Jonathan Samuel Bett (Translation), Sam Bett (Translation), Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translation), Carpenter Juliet Winters (Translation), Stephen Dodd (Translation), Dodd Stephen (Translation), Paul McCarthy (Translation), John Nathan (Translation), Hannah Osborne (Translation), Various (Translation), Oliver White (Translation), White Oliver (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2025
• EAN: 9780241723609
• ISBN: 978-0-241-72360-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 215 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Fiction in translation, Japanese, FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Classic fiction: general and literary