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Death in Midsummer: and Other Stories Free FREE DEATH IN MIDSUMMER: AND OTHER STORIES PDF Yukio Mishima | 192 pages | 01 Feb 1966 | New Directions Publishing Corporation | 9780811201179 | English | New York, United States Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima See more about this book on Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories. This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one? Previews available in: English. Add another edition? Copy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help? Learn about the virtual Library Leaders Forum happening this month. Death in midsummer, and other stories. Yukio Mishima. Want to Read. Download for print-disabled. Buy this book Better Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories Books. Share this book Facebook. Last edited by Clean Up Bot. October 4, History. An edition of Death in midsummer, and other stories This edition published in by New Directions in [New York]. Written in English — pages. 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Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories Page. Donald Keene Translator. Ivan Morris Translator. Geoffrey Sargent Translator. Edward G. Seidensticker Translator. Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art. Nine of his finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict, with deftness and penetratio Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art. Nine of his finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict, with deftness and penetration, a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are sophisticated modern Japanese Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories turn out to be not so liberated from the past as they had thought. In the title story, "Death in Midsummer," which is set at a beach resort, a triple tragedy becomes a cloud of doom that requires exorcising. In another, "Patriotism," a young army officer and his wife choose a way of vindicating their belief in ancient values that is as violent as it is traditional; it prefigured his own death by seppuku in November There is a story in which the sad truth of the relationship between a businessman and his former mistress is revealed through a suggestion of the unknown, Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories another in which a working- class couple, touching in their simple love for each other, pursue financial security by rather shocking means. Photograph on back cover by T. Kamiya; cover design by David Ford Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published September 15th by New Directions first published February 15th More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories. To ask other readers questions about Death in Midsummer and Other Storiesplease sign up. Could I get a free copy of Death in midsummer and other stories by Yukio Mishima? Don't be a beggar. Books aren't expensive, and libraries are a thing. See 1 question about Death in Midsummer and Other Stories…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Death in Midsummer and Other Stories. Jun 28, Mariel rated it really liked it Recommends it for: snow angels. Have you seen Yukio Mishima? He's Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories really buff Japanese guy. He might be carrying a big ass sword. He's probably wearing tighty whiteys because he was wearing little white underpants in every photo I've ever seen of him. How many really buff Japanese guys with swords in little white underwear Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories there be? Will you tell him that I changed my mind about thinking he was kinda good but not really favorite material? That maybe he was kinda too melodramatic for someone as Have you seen Yukio Mishima? That maybe he was kinda too melodramatic for someone as down to earth as me? I've run all over town checking for editions of his books just so I could apologize to a photo of him in white underwear. Fruit of the loom is really good underwear! It seldom rides up when running through town frantically to apologize for being an asshole yet again. I looked for his face next to Jesus in the burger sign. My alphabet soup spelled Yuk. I scrounged Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories stores for ouija boards. I was wrong! How can I eat my words? My alphabet soup won't spell I'm sorry. You are a-w-e-s-o-m-e. He's in everything I watch. The spirit of nippon. He's the gay samurai on my youtube that came on by itself! He's in the advertisement on vevo for something I didn't actually pay attention to. He's my drug dealer with really big lips. He's not Robert Smith because Yukio was really buff, like I said. But other than that! I can't watch anything from the '80s at all. Yukio Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories. It's a video of Vince Clarke from Erasure pretending to be a Samurai so he can make it with the model who was probably dating one of the guys from Color Me Badd at the time. The one who liked to wear orange. The seasons change and he flies around rain or shine. His stunt double, Hank Azaria, performs cart wheels and rides on the wire thingies that don't ever really look like anyone Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories doing anything other than being lifted on wire thingies. Hank Azaria risked his life on dangerous wire thingies so that Vince Clarke could have no chemistry with a starving model! It's an advertisement. It didn't make me buy anything. Actually, that should be 2. A man in ugly clothes wishes he had drugs because only drug dealers or pimps get away with wearing such ugly s looking clothes. Faces are not good movie theatres. My forehead is not actually four feet tall. That was just the mean nickname my brother's friends gave me in high school "four foot forehead". Stop showing these stupid '80s videos on my forehead! Okay, I'm lying. My ringtone is Reo Speedwagon's Keep on loving you. I'm gonna keep on looooooving yooooooou. REO Speedwagon are gonna keep on loving you. He forgives me! We're best buddies now and I'm going to read more of his books. It turns out we like all Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories the same stuff! Girlfriend, I'm coming over! Yukio is wearing his tightey whiteys. I've got one of those white t-shirts is it a wife beater if you are a girl? We're picking out a cute prison boyfriend for Yukio and I'm lamenting that I'll never, ever be with Morrissey. I pick out a cute prison boyfriend for Morrissey too. Editions of Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Each one centers on a significant Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories in a character's life, something either small or grandiose that will alter that character completely. Such a simple project and yet Mishima demonstrates its range and potency. This is my introduction to the author and though I'm not buying into his infatuation with the death drive his work is undeniably important to study. So, yeah, I'm going to keep reading this beautiful weirdo. Horrible in all its detail. It's worth reading the rest of the book just for that one, without doubt. It's a pity that so many people will air their snap judgements about stories and their biases about writers without actually reading the stories and still expect to be acknowledged. Regardless, I didn't agree with their bizarre and unsubstantiated theses, that Mishima was a misogynist or that all homosexuals are misogynists, either. Honest reviewers should always leave such illusions in the dust where they belong and instead seek to understand the work at hand. I found this collection of nine stories and a one-act play to be far more structurally and thematically representative of the overall work Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories Yukio Mishima than was Acts of Worship.
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