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DEATH IN MIDSUMMER AND OTHER STORIES by Yukio Mishima. 181 pages. New Directions. $5.50. (Paperback...
Bestselling Author Yukio Mishima can write no wrong-at least in his native Japan. There he has briskly blended sensation and sensibility in 16 novels, 30 plays, and 80 short stories. Nine of these have now been issued in fluid, faultless English translation. In Onnagata, a dedicated Kabuki actor who plays only feminine roles lives his onstage art offstage as well, falls in love with a nasty new-wave director. In Patriotism, a dis graced lieutenant and his wife rapturously relax in a last voluptuous night together-and discover that after such pleasures, hara-kiri hurts even harder...
Kennedy, on the other hand, is described by Japanese Novelist Yukio Mishima as "the shining prince of the Genji tradition, a man with strategy in his mind and poetry in his heart." The USIS film Years of Lightning, Day of Drums is the biggest hit in Congolese box-office history; West African damsels wear dresses with the portrait of J.F.K. printed on the fabric, and underlined by the caption: "Africa Will Not Forget You." One of Johnson's few African solaces is the fact that a Congolese group wrote to the U.S. embassy requesting permission to name...
...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...