Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corpor
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780811213127ISBN:0811213129
Description: Very Good. Text pages clean & tight with no markings or highlighting. Cover has scattered scratches. For the young army officer in this fictional story, death & ecstasy become elementally entwined. Very readable copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corpor
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780811213127ISBN:0811213129
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1995-11-01
ISBN-13:9780811213127ISBN:0811213129
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780811213127. read more
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: NY: NEW DIRECTIONS. 1995
Date Published: 1995
Description: First American Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Fine in pictorial vellobound printed wrappers. (Title inked by publisher on spine) An uncommon advance. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corpor
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780811213127ISBN:0811213129
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NEW DIRECTIONS
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780811213127ISBN:0811213129
Description: New. 'Was it death he was now waiting for? Or a wild ecstasy of the senses? ' For the young army officer of Yukio Mishima's seminal story, 'Patriotism, ' death and ecstasy become elementally intertwined. With his unique rigor and passion, Mishima hones in... read more
Description: Very Good. 1995 Paperback. Orders usually ship on or before next business day. May have highlighting. We send best copy available. read more
"Patriotism is said to be Mishima's favorite story; there is little doubt it is one of his greatest - sublime in all its nuances, and compelling in its vision of finality. It is a fascinating look into the world of death and eroticism - a rare work of beauty, seduction, and sensuality. How does Mishima create a scene that overwhelms the soul, enslaves the imagination, and draws out - almost beguiles - the perverse desire for the death act?
He writes with sweeping power in a style so subtle, yet so alluring and consuming, that it leaves you trembling in bliss. He writes with the absolute authority of determination that leaves no room for escape.
Mishima has you believing that you are the master of your own destiny, in life, and, in death. The will to die at your own chosen time and in your own chosen way, as in the case of Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama and his wife Rieko, moves one to consider such a glorious and symbolic act of defiance and elegance.
Savoring the warmth glowing within themselves, they lay still and recalled the ecstacies they had just known. Each moment of the experience was relived. They remembered the taste of kisses which had never wearied, the touch of naked flesh, episode after episode of dizzying bliss. But already, from the dark boards of the ceiling, the face of death was peering down. These joys had been final, and their bodies would never know them again."
"You can't really give a book less than one star. It doesn't merit a big fat zero. It is very much better than zero. But if you can't go more than five for the absolute best book you have ever read, then I don't think that this one quite reaches one. I hope some one reading this understands my quandry and considers this in relation to my other reviews."
"This was the very first Mishima material I came across, just a short story in one volume, picked up on a whime while hanging out in the "m" section of the bookstore. Best impulse buy I ever made."
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