A's review
The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility)
by Yukio Mishima
A's review
The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility) by Yukio Mishima
A's review
rating:
The gaze is inverted: this one's about Honda.
In the first part, before the war, Honda is a Japanese tourist floating through Siam and India. The war comes and Honda spends the entirety of it studying reincarnation. Tadeshina (from vol. 1) eats a raw egg.
In the second part, after the war, Honda is a voyeur, and watches everyone else have sex. 57 years old, he convinces himself he is in love with the Thai princess, and he transforms into a Humbert. For a few chapters, we, the readers, even live in Honda's right eye, propped up against a peephole behind his father's German lawbooks.
Thoroughly bizarre and loneliness-inducing.
In the first part, before the war, Honda is a Japanese tourist floating through Siam and India. The war comes and Honda spends the entirety of it studying reincarnation. Tadeshina (from vol. 1) eats a raw egg.
In the second part, after the war, Honda is a voyeur, and watches everyone else have sex. 57 years old, he convinces himself he is in love with the Thai princess, and he transforms into a Humbert. For a few chapters, we, the readers, even live in Honda's right eye, propped up against a peephole behind his father's German lawbooks.
Thoroughly bizarre and loneliness-inducing.
