Fiction
Spring Snow
The first volume of Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy is set in 1912 Tokyo, where the aristocratic Kiyoaki Matsugae falls into a fatal, repressed passion for his childhood friend Satoko. The novel is drunk on beauty and preoccupied with the Buddhist idea of impermanence, though its real engine is the violence that beauty does to the people caught inside it. Reincarnation, courtly ritual, and the aesthetic of doomed love all announce themselves early.The Pocket edition is small and portable, appropriate for a novel that is ornate, cold, and deliberately seductive. Mishima writes desire as a kind of slow aristocratic suicide; for readers who like their tragedies beautiful enough to wound.
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