Word: mishima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA by Yukio Mishima. 181 pages. Knopf...
Brilliantly prosed and composed by Yukio Mishima, a 40-year-old novelist and playwright (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion) who has been called "the Japanese Camus," The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is obviously intended as a major work of art -as an Oriental transfiguration of the novel of the absurd, and as a crypto-sociological study of the homicidal hysteria that, in Author Mishima's opinion, lies latent in the Japanese character. Unhappily, the book turns out to be simply a diabolically skillful thriller...
...Japanese are now concentrating on sex and sensibility in their novels (Junichiro Tanizaki's The Key, Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country, Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion), and the emotions of a single person interest them more than the entire Pacific war. "We are grass eaters here," says one Japanese writer good-humoredly. "So meaty a subject as war guilt is physically incompatible with...