Animal games
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Animal games
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A pompous literary authority, completely devoid of both conscience and moderation; his exhausted and proud wife, to whom he brings nothing but grief; and a young man in love with her, caught in the epicenter of an endless and hopeless family catastrophe. The triangle is the most stable structure, and the most dangerous. Love, jealousy, manipulation, a sense of duty, vices, and a stubborn, albeit futile, pursuit of virtue—such are the games of beasts at the mercy of fate. Everyone will suffer; there is no escape, nor will there ever be; fate cannot be avoided. All that remains of you is a legend, which the rector of the village church will recount at your graveside to a visiting folklorist.
Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) was a star of 20th-century literature, the most widely read Japanese author in the world, a brilliant talent renowned for both his works, spanning a wide range and variety of genres (novels, plays, short stories, essays), and his astonishing biography (his obsession with bodybuilding, his extreme right-wing political views, and his hara-kiri after a failed coup attempt). Animal Play is a novel from his middle, mature period, a deeply psychological, at times bitterly satirical reimagining of the classic Noh theater plot, a story of the union of tormented souls and the impossibility of escaping the vicious cycle of love and violence.
Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) was a star of 20th-century literature, the most widely read Japanese author in the world, a brilliant talent renowned for both his works, spanning a wide range and variety of genres (novels, plays, short stories, essays), and his astonishing biography (his obsession with bodybuilding, his extreme right-wing political views, and his hara-kiri after a failed coup attempt). Animal Play is a novel from his middle, mature period, a deeply psychological, at times bitterly satirical reimagining of the classic Noh theater plot, a story of the union of tormented souls and the impossibility of escaping the vicious cycle of love and violence.
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