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Star

Yukio Mishima
Star Book PDF

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228435

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Star by Yukio Mishima Pdf

For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker) All eyes are on Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells “action”; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions. Being a star, constantly performing, being watched and scrutinized as if under a microscope, is often a drag. But so is life. Written shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film “Afraid to Die,” this novella is a rich and unflinching psychological portrait of a celebrity coming apart at the seams. With exquisite, vivid prose, Star begs the question: is there any escape from how we are seen by others?

Life for Sale

Yukio Mishima
Life for Sale Book PDF

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525565154

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Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima Pdf

After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots—even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the cross hairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate. By turns wildly inventive, darkly comedic, and deeply surreal, in Life for Sale Yukio Mishima stunningly uses satire to explore the same dark themes that preoccupied him throughout his lifetime.

The Dig

Cynan Jones
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Author : Cynan Jones
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847088796

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The Dig by Cynan Jones Pdf

Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a badger-baiter who brings with him the stark threat of violence. Built of the interlocking fates of these two solitary men, this is a searing story of isolation and loss, from a writer of uncommon gifts.

My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima
My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima Book PDF

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0231126336

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My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima by Yukio Mishima Pdf

Acclaimed Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was also a prolific playwright, penning more than sixty plays, nearly all of which were produced in his lifetime. Hiroaki Sato is the first to translate these plays into English. For this collection he has selected five major plays and three essays Mishima wrote about drama. The title play is a satire that follows the breakdown of friendship between Adolf Hitler and two Nazi officials who were ultimately assassinated under orders from Hitler.

The Sky Atlas

Edward Brooke-Hitching
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Author : Edward Brooke-Hitching
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781797202198

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The Sky Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching Pdf

The Sky Atlas unveils some of the most beautiful maps and charts ever created during humankind's quest to map the skies above us. This richly illustrated treasury showcases the finest examples of celestial cartography—a glorious art often overlooked by modern map books—as well as medieval manuscripts, masterpiece paintings, ancient star catalogs, antique instruments, and other curiosities. This is the sky as it has never been presented before: the realm of stars and planets, but also of gods, devils, weather wizards, flying sailors, ancient aliens, mythological animals, and rampaging spirits. • Packed with celestial maps, illustrations, and stories of places, people, and creatures that different cultures throughout history have observed or imagined in the heavens • Readers are taken on a tour of star-obsessed cultures around the world, learning about Tibetan sky burials, star-covered Inuit dancing coats, Mongolian astral prophets and Sir William Herschel's 1781 discovery of Uranus, the first planet to be found since antiquity. • A gorgeous book that delights stargazers and map lovers alike With thrilling stories and gorgeous artwork, this remarkable atlas explores our fascination with the sky across time and cultures to form an extraordinary chronicle of cosmic imagination and discovery. The Sky Atlas is a wonderful book for map lovers, history buffs, and stargazers, but also for those who are intrigued by the many wonderful and bizarre ways in which humans have sought to understand the cosmos and our place in it. • A unique map book that expands beyond the terrestrial and into the celestial • A wonderful book for map lovers, obscure-history fans, mythology buffs, and astrology and astronomy lovers • Great for those who enjoyed What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky by Kelsey Oseid, Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski, and Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will by Judith Schalansky

Runaway Horses

Yukio Mishima
Runaway Horses Book PDF

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679722403

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Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima Pdf

Yukio Mishima’s Runaway Horses is the second novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Again we encounter Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. In 1932, Shigeuki Honda has become a judge in Osaka. Convinced that a young rightist revolutionary, Isao, is the reincarnation of his friend Kiyoaki, Honda commits himself to saving the youth from an untimely death. Isao, driven to patriotic fanaticism by a father who instilled in him the ethos of the ancient samurai, organizes a violent plot against the new industrialists who he believes are usurping the Emperor’s rightful power and threatening the very integrity of the nation. Runaway Horses is the chronicle of a conspiracy — a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war.

The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts

Abbie Farwell Brown
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Author : Abbie Farwell Brown
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465614179

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The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Abbie Farwell Brown Pdf

EVERY one has heard of Bridget, the little girl saint of Ireland. Her name is almost as well known as that of Saint Patrick, who drove all the snakes from the Island. Saint Bridget had long golden hair; and she was very beautiful. Many wonderful things happened to her that are written in famous books. But I suspect that you never heard what she did about the King's Wolf. It is a queer story. This is how it happened. The King of Ireland had a tame wolf which some hunters had caught for him when it was a wee baby. And this wolf ran around as it pleased in the King's park near the palace, and had a very good time. But one morning he got over the high wall which surrounded the park, and strayed a long distance from home, which was a foolish thing to do. For in those days wild wolves were hated and feared by the people, whose cattle they often stole; and if a man could kill a wicked wolf he thought himself a very smart fellow indeed. Moreover, the King himself had offered a prize to any man who should bring him a dead wolf. For he wanted his kingdom to be a peaceful, happy one, where the children could play in the woods all day without fear of big eyes or big teeth. Of course you can guess what happened to the King's wolf? A big, silly country fellow was going along with his bow and arrows, when he saw a great brown beast leap over a hedge and dash into the meadow beyond. It was only the King's wolf running away from home and feeling very frisky because it was the first time that he had done such a thing. But the country fellow did not know all that. "Aha!" he said to himself. "I'll soon have you, my fine wolf; and the King will give me a gold piece that will buy me a hat and a new suit of clothes for the holidays." And without stopping to think about it or to look closely at the wolf, who had the King's mark upon his ear, the fellow shot his arrow straight as a string. The King's wolf gave one great leap into the air and then fell dead on the grass, poor fellow. The countryman was much pleased. He dragged his prize straight up to the King's palace and thumped on the gate.

De bestiis marinis

Georg Steller
De bestiis marinis Book PDF

Author : Georg Steller
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609620103

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De bestiis marinis by Georg Steller Pdf

Steller's classic work, published in Latin in 1751 and in German in 1753, contains the only scientific description from life of the Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), as well as the first scientific descriptions of the fur seal or "sea bear" (Callorhinus ursinus), Steller's sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), and the sea otter (Enhydra lutris). Steller's sea cow was a sirenian, or manatee, inhabiting the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. It was first discovered by Europeans in 1741 and rendered extinct by 1768. It was a 30-foot long, plant-eating aquatic mammal, weighing up to 12 tons, that lived in large herds on the coasts of Alaska and Kamchatka. Steller made his observations as part of Vitus Bering's second voyage, during which the crew was shipwrecked for 9 months on Bering Island, from November 1741 to August 1742.

Frolic of His Own

William Gaddis
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Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439125472

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Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis Pdf

A dazzling fourth novel by the author of The Recognitions, Carpenter’s Gothic, and JR uses his considerable powers of observation and satirical sensibilities to take on the American legal system.

The Temple of Dawn

Yukio Mishima
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Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307834324

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The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima Pdf

The third novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, in which a brilliant lawyer will go to nearly any length to discover whether a young Thai princess is in fact the reincarnated spirit of his childhood friend. • “Surpassingly chilling, subtle, and original.” —The New York Times Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant lawyer, is granted an audience with a young Thai princess—an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. In spite of all reason, he is convinced she is the reincarnated spirit of his friend Kiyoaki. As Honda goes to great lengths to discover for certain if his theory is correct, The Temple of Dawn becomes the story of one man’s obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment.

Toddler-hunting & Other Stories

Taeko Kōno
Toddler hunting Other Stories Book PDF

Author : Taeko Kōno
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811213919

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Toddler-hunting & Other Stories by Taeko Kōno Pdf

Disquieting stories exploring women's freedom & bondage in post-WWII Japan.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Haruki Murakami
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Book PDF

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307781093

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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Pdf

In this hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive novel, Japan’s most popular (and controversial) fiction writer hurtles into the consciousness of the West. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World draws readers into a narrative particle accelerator in which a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is simultaneously cooler than zero and unaffectedly affecting, a hilariously funny and deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist

Andrew Rankin
Mishima Aesthetic Terrorist Book PDF

Author : Andrew Rankin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824876418

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Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist by Andrew Rankin Pdf

Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers around the world, Mishima has often been scorned by scholars, who view him as a frivolous figure whose work expresses little more than his own morbid personality. In Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist, Andrew Rankin sets out to challenge this perception by demonstrating the intelligence and seriousness of Mishima’s work and thought. Each chapter of the book examines one of the central ideas that Mishima develops in his writings: life as art, beauty as evil, culture as myth, eroticism as transgression, the artist as tragic hero, narcissism as the death drive. Along with fresh readings of major works of fiction such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and “Patriotism,” the book introduces less familiar works in different genres. Special prominence is given to Mishima’s essays, which contain some of his most brilliant writing. Mishima is concerned with such problems as the loss of certainties and absolute values that characterizes modernity, and the decline of strong identities in a world of increasing uniformity and globalization. In his cultural criticism Mishima makes an impassioned defense of free speech, and he rails against all forms of authoritarianism and censorship. Rankin reads Mishima’s artistic project, up to and including his spectacular death, as a single, sustained lyric, an aggressive piece of performance art unfolding in multiple media. For all his rebellious energies, Mishima’s work is suffused with a sense of ending—the end of art, the end of eroticism, the end of culture, the end of the world—and it is governed by a decadent aestheticism which holds that beautiful things radiate their most intense beauty on the cusp of their destruction. Erudite and authoritative, yet written in clear, accessible prose, Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist is essential reading for all those who seek a deeper understanding of this radical and provocative figure.

The Sound of Waves

Yukio Mishima
The Sound of Waves Book PDF

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307834348

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The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima Pdf

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.

The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Yukio Mishima
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea Book PDF

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 178487972X

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The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima Pdf

A beautiful hardback edition of a great Japanese classic, beautiful, lyrical and deeply ominous. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys 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 idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying. 'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful