The Sea of Fertility
1970
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Jukio Misima — samyj znamenityj i chitaemyj v mire japonskij pisatel. Proslavilsja on v ravnoj stepeni kak svoimi proizvedenijami vo vsekh myslimykh zhanrakh (romany, pesy, rasskazy, esse), tak i ekstravagantnym stilem zhizni i smerti (kharakiri posle neudachnoj popytki monarkhicheskogo perevorota). Tetralogija "More izobilija" — eto vershina sochinitelstva Misimy i svoego roda tvorcheskoe zaveschanie; eto proizvedenie, v kotorom Misima, po ego slovam, "vyrazil vse svoi idei" i posle kotorogo emu uzhe "ne o chem bylo pisat". Zavershiv poslednij roman tetralogii, on postavil tochku i v svoej zhizni. "More izobilija" soderzhit kvintessentsiju sobstvennoj esteticheskoj sistemy Misimy, sochetajuschej samurajsko-sintoistskie elementy s obrazami evropejskoj antichnosti, vlijaniem ezotericheskogo buddizma i dazhe induizma. Kraeugolnym kamnem etoj estetiki vsegda ostavalas tema smerti i krasoty; geroi Misimy starajutsja postich strashnuju i neopredelimuju zagadku krasoty, kotoraja suschestvuet vne morali i etiki...
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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.
