The sailor who fell from grace with the sea /
Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970,
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea / Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by John Nathan. - 131 pages ; 19 cm. - Vintage Japanese classics . - Vintage Japanese classics. .
This translation originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
A band of savage 13-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.
9781784875428 (pbk.) : £9.99
Teenage boys--Japan--Fiction.
PL833.I7A2
F MIS
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea / Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by John Nathan. - 131 pages ; 19 cm. - Vintage Japanese classics . - Vintage Japanese classics. .
This translation originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
A band of savage 13-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.
9781784875428 (pbk.) : £9.99
Teenage boys--Japan--Fiction.
PL833.I7A2
F MIS