Angela's review
Spring Snow
by Yukio Mishima
Angela's review
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
Angela's review
rating:
recommended for: intellectuals, poetry-lovers, Japanophiles
This is a piece of great literature that's beautiful, perfectly imparts the poetry of Twentieth-Century Japanese nationalistic sensibility and is very brutal. Good luck! The author committed ritual suicide as a political protest, if that says anything.
I'm guessing this is a pretty overlooked book, though, because in Japanese, only educated and motivated people want to wade through the punishing Kanji, and in the West, it's not well read. The author did win a Nobel Prize for Literature.
I'm guessing this is a pretty overlooked book, though, because in Japanese, only educated and motivated people want to wade through the punishing Kanji, and in the West, it's not well read. The author did win a Nobel Prize for Literature.
