The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong,from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writersKoji,a young student,has fallen hopelessly in love with the beautiful,enigmatic Yuko. But she is married to the literary critic and serialphilanderer Ippei. Tormented by desire and anger,Koji is driven to anact of violence that will bind this strange,terrible love triangletogether for the rest of their lives. A starkly compelling story oflust,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
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241386705Number of pages: 176Weight: 100 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 16 mm
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This morose little gem boasts its share of sensuous depravityMishima was one of literature's great romantics,a tragedian with a heroic sensibility,an intellectual,an esthete,a man steeped in Western letters who toward the end of his life became a militant Japanese nationalistMishima is the Japanese HemingwayA writer of immense energy and ability
A sexually and psychologically complex novel... in a honed translation by Andrew Clare
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