The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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
- Setting: Yokohama, Japan
- Principal Characters: Noboru Kuroda, Fusako Kuroda, Ryuji Tsukazaki, Chief
- 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
The Story:
Part 2. Noboru, a precocious boy of thirteen, convinced of his own genius, spent much of his time in his bedroom, looking out over Yokohama Bay and listening to the sound of ships’ horns. His personal philosophy, like that of the German pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer, comprised distrust of authority and women, concentration on death and nihilism, and faith in universal order. One night he discovered a peephole in his bedroom wall through which he was able to observe his mother’s boudoir. Several days later, his mother, Fusako, who was only thirty-three years old...
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