午后曳航

by Yukio Mishima, 帅松生 (Translator)

《午后曳航》表面上描述了一位中年寡妇与一位海员之间干柴烈火般的爱情故事，实际上，寡妇之子对海员从极端崇拜到理想破灭，并最终亲手将他心目中的英雄杀死的心理转变过程才是全书的重点。

158 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2011

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

[Siegfried · Rating 5 out of 5]

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“本来已经深感厌倦，但他却再度稍稍感悟到了那个被他放弃了的东西的恢宏。
海潮郁暗的情感、从大洋上滔滔涌来的海啸的嘶鸣、前仆后继的浪花破碎后的挫灭……按理说未知的荣耀应该在黑暗的大洋上不断呼唤他，并且与死亡，抑或女人互相掺杂，进而决定下他那特殊的命运。二十岁时，他曾固执地笃信：在世界黑暗的深处有一点光亮，那是专门为他准备的，也是特意为了照亮他才渐次靠近了他。
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龙二感到：被自己拒绝了的东西，如今，抑或从那时起就在拒绝着自己。
即便迄今为止一直如同炉火般熊熊燃烧的世界不曾属于过他，可他依然感到：在热带那令人怀念的椰树下，太阳就粘附在他的腹侧，用锐利的牙齿把那里咬得粉碎。而如今，只剩下了一些余烬。他开始了没有晃动的和平生活。
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大海的辉煌中，死亡如同积雨云一般扩散开去蜂拥而至。他曾恍惚梦想过一种对他来说早已永远失去了机会的、庄严的、在万人瞩目下壮烈无比的死亡。如果说世界存在的本身，就是为了这一辉煌无比的死亡，那么，与此同时，世界即便为之毁灭也没有什么不可思议。”

[秋 王 · Rating 5 out of 5]

真屌 翻译也好

[Z. · Rating 4 out of 5]

a big "yeah I'm f***ed up but so what"