After the Banquet (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Yukio Mishima
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Satire
- Time of Work: The late 1950’s
- Setting: Tokyo, Japan
- Principal Characters: Kazu Fukuzawa, Yuken Noguchi, Soichi Yamazaki, Genki Nagayama
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1950’s, Politics, Marriage, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Elections, Politicians, Japan or Japanese people
- Locales: Tokyo, Japan
The Novel
After the Banquet is a political and social satire. Yuken Noguchi, the elderly politician in the novel, was based on an actual public figure, while the central character of interest in the narrative is Kazu Fukuzawa, the middle-aged proprietress of the Setsugoan restaurant, which was based on the famous Hannya-en restaurant in Tokyo. Although the work is written in the third person and the story is often told in a tongue-in-cheek style, the focus is on Kazu, who is treated more sympathetically than her elderly lover-statesman.
The novel begins...
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