01979nam a2200373Ia 4500 20260803094253.0 251212s1990 xx 000 0 und d The Decay of the angel / Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker. Mishima, Yukio 1925-1970. Seidensticker, Edward, translator New York : Vintage International, 1990. 1st Vintage International 236 pages: 20 cm The Sea of fertility ; [4] 9780679722434 Adoption Japan FICTION Japan Fiction. Japan Social life and customs 1945 Fiction FIC M6872 1990 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 SH0673 in English High School Library "Yukio Mishima`s The Decay of the Angel is the final novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. It is the last installment of Shigekuni Honda`s pursuit of the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. It is the late 1960s and Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, once more encounters a person he believes to be a reincarnation of his friend, Kiyoaki -- this time restored to life as a teenage orphan, Toru. Adopting the boy as his heir, Honda quickly finds that Toru is a force to be reckoned with. The final novel of this celebrated tetralogy weaves together the dominant themes of the previous three novels in the series: the decay of Japan`s courtly tradition; the essence and value of Buddhist philosophy and aesthetics; and, underlying all, Mishima`s apocalyptic vision of the modern era."--Publisher`s description. 0 text unmediated volume lcc BK dsolimen 2025-03-10 13:21:55 dsolimen 2025-03-10 13:22:06 13350 13205 13205 0 0 ddc 0 0 BED BED BED 2025-12-21 0 FIC M6872 1990 SH0673 2026-06-18 00:00:00 2025-12-21 BK