
Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world — to them, adult life is illusory, hypocritical, and …

《假面的告白》是三岛由纪夫在日本战后文坛的成名作,是其第二部长篇小说,1949年7月由河出书房出版。当时的编辑是音乐家阪本龙一的父亲阪本一龟。这本小说被川端康成誉为“1950年代的希望”。

《潮騷》,三島由紀夫作品,1953年3月與8月先後兩度前往神島旅行,9月開始執筆創作,在1954年發表,曾獲第一屆新潮社文學獎。潮騷意思是潮水拍擊岸邊的波浪聲,三島在寫稿的前一年曾經去希臘,因此「潮騷」等於是羅馬的歷史小說「塔夫尼斯與克蘿婀」的現代版。 …

禁色,日本战后小说大家三岛由纪夫的长篇小说,第一部和第二部・秘楽由新潮社分别于1951年与1953年发行。以男色为主轴,展现了三岛由纪夫对希腊风格的向往及对法国小说心理描写传统的追摹。

Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art. Nine of Yukio Mishima’s finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they …