Goddess
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Shugo, a respectable and enlightened father of a family, had already figured out the secret of female beauty in his youth: if you tell a woman day after day that she is beautiful, she will become beautiful. He, a refined connoisseur of beauty, applied this approach to his wife for years, and then to his only daughter. To raise young Asako to be an ideal woman - such is the sinless but irresistible passion of this Pygmalion. But what happens when the ideal woman appears in the world and encounters love and betrayal for the first time?..
Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) is a star of 20th-century literature, the most widely read Japanese author in the world, a man of brilliant talent, famous for his works of the widest range and variety of genres (novels, plays, short stories, essays), as well as for his stunning biography (obsession with bodybuilding, extreme right-wing political views, hara-kiri after an unsuccessful attempt at a monarchical coup). His "Goddess" is a subtle, partly satirical allegory of creativity (it is believed that Mishima polemicizes here with the aesthete Junichiro Tanizaki and the tragic figure of Japanese poetry Osamu Dazai) and a poignant story about real people who, in the name of love for beauty, try to mold beauty from living material and, as a result, are doomed to come face to face with the gods.
Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) is a star of 20th-century literature, the most widely read Japanese author in the world, a man of brilliant talent, famous for his works of the widest range and variety of genres (novels, plays, short stories, essays), as well as for his stunning biography (obsession with bodybuilding, extreme right-wing political views, hara-kiri after an unsuccessful attempt at a monarchical coup). His "Goddess" is a subtle, partly satirical allegory of creativity (it is believed that Mishima polemicizes here with the aesthete Junichiro Tanizaki and the tragic figure of Japanese poetry Osamu Dazai) and a poignant story about real people who, in the name of love for beauty, try to mold beauty from living material and, as a result, are doomed to come face to face with the gods.
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