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Sea of Abundance. Tetralogy

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Yukio Mishima is the world's most famous and widely read Japanese writer. He is famous as much for his works in every conceivable genre (novels, plays, short stories, essays) as for his extravagant style of life and death (hara-kiri after a failed attempt at a monarchical coup). The Sea of Plenty tetralogy is the pinnacle of Mishima's writing and a kind of creative testament; it is the work in which Mishima, in his words, "expressed all his ideas" and after which he had "nothing more to write about". By completing the last novel of the tetralogy, he put an end to his life. "Sea of Plenty" contains the quintessence of Mishima's own aesthetic system, combining samurai-sintoist elements with images of European antiquity, the influence of esoteric Buddhism and even Hinduism. The cornerstone of this aesthetic has always been the theme of death and beauty; Mishima's characters try to comprehend the terrible and indefinable mystery of beauty, which exists beyond morality and ethics, capable of enslaving and destroying the human personality. The plot of The Sea of Plenty is based on the idea of reincarnation, consistently revealed through a story of tragic love, idealistic self-sacrifice, mystical obsession, the collapse of illusions...
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