Description
Title: Frolic of the Beasts, The
Author: MISHIMA YUKIO
Illustrator: CLARE ANDREW(TRANS)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 02/11/2023
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSIC
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
New in Penguin Japanese Classics- a gripping novel about a love affair gone wrong
Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan’s most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in a seaside town to an underground ‘ark’ full of shadows and eccentrics, with stops at mountains of skulls, lonely apartments and boarding school dormitories, this series is perfect for new and long-time readers of Japanese literature.
Koji, a young student, has fallen hopelessly in love with the beautiful, enigmatic Yuko. But she is married to the literary critic and serial philanderer Ippei. Tormented by desire and anger, Koji is driven to an act of violence that will bind this strange, terrible love triangle together for the rest of their lives. A starkly compelling story of lust, guilt and punishment, The Frolic of the Beasts explores the masks we wear in life, and what happens when they slip.
‘One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century’ – New Yorker
Translated by Andrew Clare
Series: Japanese Classics
ISBN: 9780241675311
Weight: 123g
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 160