Mishima's literary powers are on full display in his penultimate novel that is a meditation on reincarnation and Buddhist philosophy. Honda,a brilliant lawyer and man of reason,is called to Bangkok on legal business,where he is granted an audience with a young Thai princess - an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. He is convinced she is a reincarnated spirit,and undertakes a long,arduous pilgrimage to the holy places of India,where,in the climactic scene,he encounters her once more,only to have his newfound beliefs shattered and his life bereft of all meaning.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099282792Number of pages: 336Weight: 234 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
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The four novels remain one of the outstanding works of 20th-Century literature and a summary of the author's life and work... Like the Divine Comedy and Remembrance of Things Past,"The Sea of Fertility" gives the reader the sensation of being carried to a great height...but Mishima abandons the reader at the edge of the precipice,revealing the abyss beneath the degraded life of the post-war worldSurpassingly chilling,subtle,and originalJapan's foremost man of lettersTremendous...evocative and poetic
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