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 - London : Vintage Books, 1999 - 181 p. ; 20 cm
A band of savage thirteen-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 disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.
9780099284796
895.6"19" 82-3"19"
The sailor who fell from Grace with the sea / Yukio Mishima ; translated from the japanese by John Nathan - London : Vintage Books, 1999 - 181 p. ; 20 cm
A band of savage thirteen-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 disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.
9780099284796
895.6"19" 82-3"19"
