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The Sound Of Waves ペーパーバック – 1999/3/11
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Yukio Mishima
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Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love. When the villagers' gossip threatens to divide them, Shinki must risk his life to prove his worth.
- ISBN-109780099289982
- ISBN-13978-0099289982
- 出版社Vintage Classics
- 発売日1999/3/11
- 言語英語
- 寸法12.9 x 1.2 x 19.8 cm
- 本の長さ192ページ
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A work of art...altogether a joyous and lovely thing (New York Times)
Of such classic design its action might take place at any point across a thousand years (San Francisco Chronicle)
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著者について
Yukio Mishima was born into a samurai family and imbued with the code of complete control over mind and body, and loyalty to the Emperor - the same code that produced the austerity and self-sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless stories and thirty-three plays, in some of which he performed. Several films have been made from his novels, including The Sound of Waves, Enjo which was based on The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea. Among his other works are the novels Confessions of a Mask and Thirst for Love and the short story collections Death in Midsummer and Acts of Worship. The Sea of Fertility tetralogy, however, is his masterpiece. After Mishima conceived the idea of The Sea of Fertility in 1964, he frequently said he would die when it was completed. On 25 November 1970, the day he completed The Decay of the Angel, the last novel of the cycle, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide) at the age of forty-five.
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- ASIN : 0099289989
- 出版社 : Vintage Classics (1999/3/11)
- 発売日 : 1999/3/11
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 192ページ
- ISBN-10 : 9780099289982
- ISBN-13 : 978-0099289982
- 寸法 : 12.9 x 1.2 x 19.8 cm
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(1925-1970)東京生れ。本名、平岡公威。
1947(昭和22)年東大法学部を卒業後、大蔵省に勤務するも9ヶ月で退職、執筆生活に入る。1949年、最初の書き下ろし長編『仮面の告白』を刊行、作家としての地位を確立。
主な著書に、1954年『潮騒』(新潮社文学賞)、1956年『金閣寺』(読売文学賞)、1965年『サド侯爵夫人』(芸術祭賞)等。1970年11月25日、『豊饒の海』第四巻「天人五衰」の最終回原稿を書き上げた後、自衛隊市ヶ谷駐屯地で自決。ミシマ文学は諸外国語に翻訳され、全世界で愛読される。
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5つ星のうち3.0
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Yet to read the book but the quality of the book is bad some words are misprinted and the cover was folded
Christopher O'Riley
5つ星のうち5.0
Every Mishima I read becomes my new favorite.
2019年10月8日に米国でレビュー済み Amazonで購入
It's fair to say that this past year, my reading life has been dominated by Japanese writers. I've been a late enthusiast of Haruki Murakami's work, but I've happily read all of it in the last three years. Just before the New Year I was introduced to the work of Yasunari Kawabata through which I was swept, awe-struck through his whole ouevre. Soon after that, I read my favorite book of all time, Natsume Soseki's I Am A Cat. Of course I read him through, though crest-fallen at the lesser prominence of felines in his later novels. Despite that, Soseki was my favorite Japanese writer, but perhaps my favorite writer of all.
Kawabata's colleague, confidant and competitor, ultimately prevailing in his winning of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yukio Mishima, was someone I'd heard of but never assayed.
Yukio Mishima is my favorite writer. I was fully committed to bingeing his work after my introduction via Michael Gallagher's supremely sympathetic English translation of The Sea of Fertility's first volume, Spring Snow. Committed as I was, I read his earliest novels, Confessions of a Mask (1949) and the formidable Forbidden Colours (1951-53). I found Alfred H. Mark's translation of Colours irritatingly clunky in a way that made me suspect I was misapplying the abrupt and awkward prose to Mishima's immature work. My acquaintance with Meredith Weatherby's astonishing translation of Confessions of a Mask thoroughly disabused me of any feeling of young Mishima's shortcomings or brashness, properly laying the blame on the lame Alfred Marks. I own the next in chronological line of Mishima's work, Thirst For Love (1950), but, Marks having been the sole translator of that early work, I think I'll save it for a later date.
Luckily, the inestimably talented and sympathetic translative ear of Meredith Weatherby was the English voice of The Sound of Waves (1954) which I've now read in a white heat. Mishima has written widely for the stage, and in this book and in the few others I've read, I am struck by his gifted command in shaping dramatic situations, dynamics both personal and elemental, as the ambience and engine of his narrative. I have also been overwhelmed with his imagery, wherever I've encountered it, with his empathetic descriptions of the sea and surf.
After the homoerotic cosmopolitan immersions of contemporary Tokyo that are Mishima's Mask and Colours, it was bracing to say the least to find ourselves landed in the simpler setting of a humble fishing village on the small Japanese island, Uta-Jima (invoked as the first sonority, the first word of the novel)
I have always been arrested by the fierce intensity and laminate beauty of Mishima's water imagery, but The Sound of Waves is a whole redolent universe of such astonishing evocation. It is also an unabashed, intimately compassionate and compelling love story of two children of the island, Shinji, a young apprentice fisherman, and a daughter of the diving class of island women, Hatsue. As with Confessions of a Mask, one innate talent of Mishima is in his depiction of young love, of emergent sexuality. I am confident there has never been such a master of this dynamic of innocence and awakening since Vladimir Nabokov.
As much of the novel takes place in the sea, with its dangers and daring, its implacable strength and eternity, much of the dramatic and emotional action takes place within the torii of the modest pinnacle of the island, the Yoshiro Shrine. And the true nexus of intrigue and destiny takes place at the electrical shrine dispelling darkness, danger and mystery, the lighthouse.
A writer friend of mine, someone who'd been badgering me to continue with the Three-Body Problem trilogy, when I apologized that I could not abandon my Mishima n=binge, understood, saying that it was a problematic calculus, Cixin Liu's prophecies and epiphanies coming once every 100 pages, arriving in Mishima with every phrase.
Every characterization is true. There are no mechanistic caricatures like in a Dickens novel. Even when making right decisions, the frailty and foibles of those molding the fate of the protagonists may not state their judgements in ways that fulfill our own sense of justice and morality, but justice prevails nonetheless, and the characters and their colloquy are always true to themselves.
There are cliff-hangers in this love story, matters of bravery and menace, revelations of dark and ungenerous natures, the sanity and sanctity of suicide, morality of simple origins, intrinsic fear of modernity. The book is rich and enriching.
I feel like every Mishima book I read will become my new favorite. That's an unfair presumption but nonetheless true with The Sound of Waves.
Kawabata's colleague, confidant and competitor, ultimately prevailing in his winning of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yukio Mishima, was someone I'd heard of but never assayed.
Yukio Mishima is my favorite writer. I was fully committed to bingeing his work after my introduction via Michael Gallagher's supremely sympathetic English translation of The Sea of Fertility's first volume, Spring Snow. Committed as I was, I read his earliest novels, Confessions of a Mask (1949) and the formidable Forbidden Colours (1951-53). I found Alfred H. Mark's translation of Colours irritatingly clunky in a way that made me suspect I was misapplying the abrupt and awkward prose to Mishima's immature work. My acquaintance with Meredith Weatherby's astonishing translation of Confessions of a Mask thoroughly disabused me of any feeling of young Mishima's shortcomings or brashness, properly laying the blame on the lame Alfred Marks. I own the next in chronological line of Mishima's work, Thirst For Love (1950), but, Marks having been the sole translator of that early work, I think I'll save it for a later date.
Luckily, the inestimably talented and sympathetic translative ear of Meredith Weatherby was the English voice of The Sound of Waves (1954) which I've now read in a white heat. Mishima has written widely for the stage, and in this book and in the few others I've read, I am struck by his gifted command in shaping dramatic situations, dynamics both personal and elemental, as the ambience and engine of his narrative. I have also been overwhelmed with his imagery, wherever I've encountered it, with his empathetic descriptions of the sea and surf.
After the homoerotic cosmopolitan immersions of contemporary Tokyo that are Mishima's Mask and Colours, it was bracing to say the least to find ourselves landed in the simpler setting of a humble fishing village on the small Japanese island, Uta-Jima (invoked as the first sonority, the first word of the novel)
I have always been arrested by the fierce intensity and laminate beauty of Mishima's water imagery, but The Sound of Waves is a whole redolent universe of such astonishing evocation. It is also an unabashed, intimately compassionate and compelling love story of two children of the island, Shinji, a young apprentice fisherman, and a daughter of the diving class of island women, Hatsue. As with Confessions of a Mask, one innate talent of Mishima is in his depiction of young love, of emergent sexuality. I am confident there has never been such a master of this dynamic of innocence and awakening since Vladimir Nabokov.
As much of the novel takes place in the sea, with its dangers and daring, its implacable strength and eternity, much of the dramatic and emotional action takes place within the torii of the modest pinnacle of the island, the Yoshiro Shrine. And the true nexus of intrigue and destiny takes place at the electrical shrine dispelling darkness, danger and mystery, the lighthouse.
A writer friend of mine, someone who'd been badgering me to continue with the Three-Body Problem trilogy, when I apologized that I could not abandon my Mishima n=binge, understood, saying that it was a problematic calculus, Cixin Liu's prophecies and epiphanies coming once every 100 pages, arriving in Mishima with every phrase.
Every characterization is true. There are no mechanistic caricatures like in a Dickens novel. Even when making right decisions, the frailty and foibles of those molding the fate of the protagonists may not state their judgements in ways that fulfill our own sense of justice and morality, but justice prevails nonetheless, and the characters and their colloquy are always true to themselves.
There are cliff-hangers in this love story, matters of bravery and menace, revelations of dark and ungenerous natures, the sanity and sanctity of suicide, morality of simple origins, intrinsic fear of modernity. The book is rich and enriching.
I feel like every Mishima book I read will become my new favorite. That's an unfair presumption but nonetheless true with The Sound of Waves.
SteveV
5つ星のうち5.0
Beautifully told, gentle story of love and anguish
2023年6月13日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
An evocative tale of the pain and joys of young love told via the backdrop of life in old rural Japan.
Amazon Customer
5つ星のうち4.0
Good as new
2023年4月17日にカナダでレビュー済み Amazonで購入
*Haven't read the book yet* (thats why I didn't put 5 stars yet)
Ordered it used and the quality is good as new. No damage at all. Even in better condition than my own used books. Would recommend buying second hand :)
Ordered it used and the quality is good as new. No damage at all. Even in better condition than my own used books. Would recommend buying second hand :)
reader 451
5つ星のうち4.0
Sea breeze of a tale
2015年3月26日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Mishima's best is no-doubt the sea of fertility tetralogy, but The Sound of Waves is a pleasant short novel, or long novella, less gloomy and wistfully, even uplifting, somewhat like After the Banquet but in an entirely different setting. This has Shinji, an uneducated young fisherman on an island off the coast of Japan pursue the daughter of the community headsman, the overbearing owner of several vessels. The girl, Hatsue, a former pearl diver, is well disposed, but her father is in no mood to condone anything so newfangled as a love match. Yet tradition also involves respect for courage and character, virtues in which Shinji is not lacking, and perhaps all is not as hopeless as it looked. Nor does The Sound of Waves, in spite of first appearances, present the picture of a traditional Japan stuck in its ways. On the contrary, set in the 1950s, it has its characters do such things as listen to the radio and take bus trips to Tokyo. Indeed, subtly, what Mishima brings to light is the picture of a country that is fast changing yet retaining, at least in pockets such as the island of Utajima, its traditional values. Beautifully written, this novel will serve as a good introduction to the author, or alternatively as a fine piece for anyone who has read his more major works.







