The Decay of the Angel - (Vintage International) by Yukio Mishima (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>As the dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility, The Decay of the Angel brings together themes that have branched through the three previous novels--the meaning (and decay) of Japan's courtly tradition, the essence and value of Buddhist philosophy, and Mishima's apocalyptic vision of the modern age.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Yukio Mishima's <i>The Decay of the Angel</i> is the final novel in his masterful tetralogy, <i>The Sea of Fertility</i>. It is the last installment of Shigekuni Honda's pursuit of the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. <p/> 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, Tōru. Adopting the boy as his heir, Honda quickly finds that Tōru 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Mesmerizing. . . . A saga of 20th-century Japan: a story of national decline that nonetheless proposes redemption through the endurance of a certain soul, forceful enough to be reborn ad infinitum." <br>--<i>The Guardian</i> (London) <p/> "The end of [Mishima's] <i>Sea of Fertility</i> tetralogy. . . is surely one of the best final scenes in the history of the novel." <br>--David Mitchell, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Yukio Mishima</b> was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University's School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, <i>The Forest in Full Bloom</i>, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with <i>Confessions of a Mask </i>(1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, <i>The Sea of Fertility</i> tetralogy--which contains the novels <i>Spring Snow</i> (1969), <i>Runaway Horses</i> (1969), <i>The Temple of Dawn</i> (1970), and <i>The Decay of the Angel </i>(1971)--is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of 45 and the day after completing the last novel in the <i>Fertility</i> series, Mishima committed <i>seppuku</i> (ritual suicide)--a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.
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