A Study Guide for Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410321282
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
A Study Guide for Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

A Study Guide for Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves

Author: Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781535843515
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description

The Sound of Waves

Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307834344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
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 Sound of Waves

Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A STUDY GUIDE & ANALYSIS OF Yukio Mishima’s #1 book: THE SOUND OF WAVES

Author: Joe Broadfoot
Publisher: Joe Broadfoot
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47

Book Description
This book is aimed at IGCSE students of Literature who are studying Yukio Mishima’s The Sound of Waves. The focus is on what examiners are looking for and here you will find each chapter covered in detail. I hope this will help you and be a valuable tool in your studies and revision.

Star

Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811228436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
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?

My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima

Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231126335
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
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.

Sun & Steel

Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: New York : Grove Press
ISBN:
Category : Gay people
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Consists of a series of essays

Collected Ancient Greek Novels

Author: B. P. Reardon
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520305590
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 982

Book Description
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.

Spring Snow

Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030783431X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399

Book Description
"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.