Spring Snow, a Translation

Spring Snow, a Translation
Author: Alison Turnbull
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2002
Genre: Artists' books
ISBN:

Spring snow is the first novel of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Alison Turnbull condenses the narrative into a colour chart. Working from the English edition, she isolates and orders each of the more than six hundred colours as they appear in the text - what emerges is a visual essay on the nature of translation.

Spring Snow

Spring Snow
Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 030783431X

"A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend. It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders—rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae, are the sons of two such families. As they come of age amidst the growing tensions between old and new, Kiyoaki is plagued by his simultaneous love for and loathing of the spirited young woman Ayakura Satoko. But Kiyoaki’s true feelings only become apparent when her sudden engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion—and leads to a love affair both doomed and inevitable.

Confessions of a Mask

Confessions of a Mask
Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1958
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811201186

The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.

Sun & Steel

Sun & Steel
Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: New York : Grove Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1970
Genre: Gay people
ISBN:

Consists of a series of essays

Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

Salmonella Men on Planet Porno
Author: Yasutaka Tsutsui
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2010-01-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307476715

An irresistible mix of imagination, satire, and humor, these stories by acclaimed Japanese author Yasutaka Tsutsui imagine the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide. The opening story, “The Dabba Dabba Tree,” details the hilarious side effects of a small conical tree that, when placed at the foot of one’s bed, creates erotic dreams. In “Commuter Army,” a sly commentary on the ludicrousness of war, a weapons supplier becomes an unwilling conscript in a war zone. “The World is Tilting” imagines a floating city that slowly begins to sink on one side, causing its citizens to reorient their daily lives to preserve a semblance of normality. And in the title story, we see how obscenely absurd the environment on Planet Porno appears to a group of scientists. The stories in Salmonella Men on Planet Porno winningly combine madcap hilarity and a sharp eye toward the insanities of contemporary life.

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"It was the sea that made me begin thinking secretly about love more than anything else; you know, a love worth dying for, or a love that consumes you. To a man locked up in a steel ship all the time, the sea is too much like a woman... Things like her lulls and storms, or her caprice... are all obvious." The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea tells the tale of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call "objectivity." When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealize the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard their disappointment in him as an act of betrayal on his part, and react violently.

The Sea and Poison

The Sea and Poison
Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811211987

Dr. Suguru, a competent physician, serves his internship during the war in a hospital where senior staff are more interested in career-building than in healing.

The Sound of Waves

The Sound of Waves
Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307834344

A timeless story of first love set in a remote fishing village in Japan. • "A story that is both happy and a work of art.... Altogether a joyous and lovely thing." —The New York Times A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.

Zoo, or Letters Not about Love

Zoo, or Letters Not about Love
Author: Viktor Shklovsky
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2024-07-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628975210

While living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. He fell into the habit of sending Elsa several letters a day, a situation she accepted under one condition: he was forbidden to write about love. Zoo, or Letters Not about Love is an epistolary novel born of this constraint, and although the brilliant and playful letters contained here cover everything from observations about contemporary German and Russian life to theories of art and literature, nonetheless every one of them is indirectly dedicated to the one topic they are all required to avoid: their author's own unrequited love.

A True Novel

A True Novel
Author: Minae Mizumura
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 883
Release: 2013-11-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590515765

A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class. The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.