The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Yukio Mishima
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: After World War II
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Betrayal, Obsession, Death or dying, Good and evil, Sailing or sailors, Boys, Japan or Japanese people
- Locales: Yokohama, Japan
Places Discussed
*Yokohama. Major Japanese seaport that represents the symbolic place where the land or human culture meets the sea or untamed nature. Noboru, like many boys, is fascinated by the dark call of dangerous foreign seas and the apparently unfettered life of a sailor. This fascination represents an adolescent and romanticized vision of life that is the opposite of the land- bound bourgeois existence he and his friends detest in the adult world they see in Yokohama. Noboru shares this view of the authentic life with Ryuji Tsukazaki who, when he was a young man, had...
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