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The Sea of Abundance: A Tetralogy

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Yukio Mishima is the most famous and widely read Japanese writer in the world. He is renowned equally for his works in every conceivable genre (novels, plays, short stories, essays) and for his extravagant style of life and death (harakiri after an unsuccessful attempt at a monarchical coup). The Sea of Fertility tetralogy is the pinnacle of Mishima's writing and a kind of creative testament; it is a work in which Mishima, in his words, "expressed all his ideas" and after which he had "nothing left to write about." Having completed the last novel in the tetralogy, he also put an end to his own life. Sea of Fertility contains the quintessence of Mishima's own aesthetic system, combining samurai-Shinto 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 strive to comprehend the terrifying 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 Fertility" is based on the idea of reincarnation, which unfolds through a story of tragic love, idealistic self-sacrifice, mystical obsession, and the collapse of illusions.
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