A's review
Runaway Horses
by Yukio Mishima
A's review
Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
A's review
rating:
Fascinating to compare and contrast against Spring Snow.
Crazy love is reincarnated as crazy ultranationalism: aren't they the same, anyway? What does it mean to save someone's life? What is devotion and trust? How do you make/keep yourself pure? How do you deal with your illusions coming crashing down? What about when the World tries to assert itself against your stubborn beliefs? These are all Big Problems!
For some sections I felt like I was staring at the world through the eyes of a terrorist, which I think makes this an important novel to reflect upon today. M forces the reader to constantly reevaluate who's a pawn, what are the sides, and what's the game?
The Shinto polemics were kind of awesome. Also fabulous, the book within the book, Isao's holy writ, "The League of the Divine Wind," about the 8th yr Meiji insurrection, referencing the wind that kept the Mongols out of Japan in that crucial sea battle of legend.
The supervillain is a klutz. But we also l...more
Crazy love is reincarnated as crazy ultranationalism: aren't they the same, anyway? What does it mean to save someone's life? What is devotion and trust? How do you make/keep yourself pure? How do you deal with your illusions coming crashing down? What about when the World tries to assert itself against your stubborn beliefs? These are all Big Problems!
For some sections I felt like I was staring at the world through the eyes of a terrorist, which I think makes this an important novel to reflect upon today. M forces the reader to constantly reevaluate who's a pawn, what are the sides, and what's the game?
The Shinto polemics were kind of awesome. Also fabulous, the book within the book, Isao's holy writ, "The League of the Divine Wind," about the 8th yr Meiji insurrection, referencing the wind that kept the Mongols out of Japan in that crucial sea battle of legend.
The supervillain is a klutz. But we also l...more
