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Star (Penguin Modern)

Autor Yukio Mishima

Editorial ALLEN LANE

Star (Penguin Modern)
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Mishima's novels exude a monstrous and compulsive weirdness, and seem to take place in a kind of purgatory for the depraved (Angela Carter)Mishima was one of literature's great romantics, a tragedian with a heroic sensibility, an intel...

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  • Publisher ALLEN LANE
  • ISBN13 9780241383476
  • ISBN10 0241383471
  • Type BOOK
  • Pages 64
  • Language English

Star (Penguin Modern)

Autor Yukio Mishima

Editorial ALLEN LANE

Mishima's novels exude a monstrous and compulsive weirdness, and seem to take place in a kind of purgatory for the depraved (Angela Carter)Mishima was one of literature's great romantics, a tragedian with a heroic sensibility, an intel...

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Mishima's novels exude a monstrous and compulsive weirdness, and seem to take place in a kind of purgatory for the depraved (Angela Carter)

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 (New York Times)

Mishima is the Japanese Hemingway (Life Magazine)

A writer of immense energy and ability (Time Out)

A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary icon

All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, 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.

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 as the absurdity of his existence comes sharply into focus. With exquisite, vivid prose, Star begs the question: is there ever any escape from how we are seen by others?

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