サド侯爵夫人・わが友ヒットラー。[Sado kōshaku fujin ; Waga tomo hittorā]

by Yukio Mishima, 三島 由紀夫

225 pages, Paperback Bunko

First published April 1, 1979

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Blake · Rating 4 out of 5]

To be honest, this was the first play I've ever read except for Shakespeare. A lot of the poeticism and symbolism went straight over my head. But I was astounded by the grace and beauty of the language and the interaction of the characters. It kept my pulse racing from start to finish. Creepy but good. And it definitely showed me that it's quite interesting to read plays as well as watch them.
And the second play was definitely about as odd as the first. And the language equally as flowery, despite that fact that this time the characters were all men. It was kind of interesting to read, think of Hitler as just a normal man and watching him begin to destroy the world around him. It's very disturbing to read and you get the feeling that he pours a lot of his own actual feelings into the story - somewhat cringeworthy, especially considering the way he died. He is フレーム in a nutshell.

[Dmytro Khomiak · Rating 4 out of 5]

Це не так про де Сада і його родичів, а скоріше як цікавий погляд на вплив аморальності на оточення і на близьке, і на дотичне.