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Tim W edited the quotations of Spring Snow (Vintage International) Thursday, September 17 2009.
- Added a quotation: “Just now I had a dream. I’ll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls.”Kiyoaki Matsugae
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Tim W edited the summary of Spring Snow (Vintage International) Thursday, September 17 2009.
Dilettante son of a nouveau-riche family seeking societal acceptance meets the refined daughter of an aristocratic family struggling to adjust to the changes in Japanese society brought on by the Meiji Restoration. A deeply intense and culturally significant story of forbidden love.
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Shelfari edited the description of Spring Snow (Vintage International) Saturday, August 1 2009.
The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertility Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when 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. Among this rising new elite are the ambitious Matsugae, whose son has been raised in a family of the waning aristocracy, the elegant and attenuated Ayakura. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new -- fiercely loving and hating the exquisite, spirited Ayakura Satoko. He suffers in psychic paralysis until the shock of her engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion, and leads to a love affair that is as doomed as it was inevitable. "Mishima is like Stendhal in his precise psychological analyses, like Dostoevsky in his explorations of darkly destructive personalities." -- Christian Science Monitor "<The Sea of Fertility> is a literary legacy on the scale of Proust's." -- National Review Translated from the Japanese by Michael Gallagher
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Shelfari edited the contributors of Spring Snow (Vintage International) Wednesday, July 22 2009.
- Added a contributor: Yukio Mishima: (Primary Author)
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