The sailor who fell from Grace with the sea / Yukio Mishima ; translated from the japanese by John Nathan

By:

Mishima, Yukio (, 1925-1970)

Contributor(s):

Nathan, John [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: eng Original language: Japanese Publication details: London : Vintage Books, 1999Description: 181 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780099284796

Summary: A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard this disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.

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A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard this disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.