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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679722416
ISBN-13
9780679722410
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1096440
Product Key Features
Book Title
Spring Snow : the Sea of Fertility, 1
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1990
Topic
Classics, General, Literary, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Vintage International Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10 oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
89-040565
Reviews
"Mishima is like Stendhal in his precise psychological analyses, like Dostoevsky in his explorations of darkly destructive personalities." -- Christian Science Monitor "[The Sea of Fertility] is a literary legacy on the scale of Proust's." -- National Review Translated from the Japanese by Michael Gallagher, "Perfect beauty. . . . A classic of Japanese literature." - Chicago Sun-Times "Mishima 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 nationalist." -Jay McInerney, The New York Times, "Perfect beauty. . . . A classic of Japanese literature." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Mishima 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 nationalist." --Jay McInerney, The New York Times, "Perfect beauty.... A classic of Japanese literature." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Mishima 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 nationalist." --Jay McInerney, The New York Times
Series Volume Number
Bk. 1
Synopsis
Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow is the first novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here we meet Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae. 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., "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.
LC Classification Number
PL833.I7H3613 1990
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One of modern Japan's best novels
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