Drie verhalen

By Yukio Mishima

1990

First Published

3.73

Average Rating

Number of Pages

2H54M

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Dit is een bundel van drie verhalen/ This is a set of three stories: Rouw om het vaderland/ Yukoku, 1961/ Mourning for the fatherland Een bruggentocht/ Hashizukushi, 1956/ A journey over bridges De parel/ Shinju, 1963/ The pearl These are three stories which demonstrate Mishima’s (state of the) art of telling a story. In 'Rouw om het vaderland' gaat het om de rituele zelfmoord van luitenant Shinji Takeyama en zijn vrouw Reiko. In 'Een bruggentocht' maken drie geisha's en een dienstmeisje een nachtelijke wandeling over zeven bruggen van Tokyo. 'De parel' is de geschiedenis van de mysterieuze verdwijning van een parel tijdens een verjaardagsfeestje./ The first story is about the ritual suicide (seppuku) of lieutenant Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. In the second story three geisha’s and a maid have a nightly stroll over seven bridges of Tokyo. The third story is about the mysterious disappearance of a pearl during a birthday party. JM

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3.73

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Author

Yukio Mishima

Author · 77 books

Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)—a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.