Fountains in the Rain
2016
First Published
3.09
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128
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"The Fountains in the Rain" was first published in English in a 1989 in a collection of seven of his short stories, Acts of Worship. One often sees in the work of Mishima the depiction of acts of cruelty done for no reason than the the pleasure it may bring. The acts are most of done, it seems, by young men who have begun for the first time to discover the world is not perfect. A story about first love.
Avg Rating
3.09
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Author
Yukio Mishima
Author · 44 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.
