wyszukanych pozycji: 48
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The Frolic of the Beasts
ISBN: 9780241386705 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers Koji, a young student, has fallen hopelessly in love with the beautiful, enigmatic Yuko. But she is married to the literary critic and serial philanderer Ippei. Tormented by desire and anger, Koji is driven to an act of violence that will bind this strange, terrible love triangle together for the rest of their lives. A starkly compelling story of lust, guilt and punishment, The Frolic of the Beasts explores the masks we wear in life, and what happens when they slip. 'One of...
The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers Koji, a young student, has fallen hopel...
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Patriotism
ISBN: 9780811218542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. By now, Yukio Mishima s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patriotic idealism an immortal vessel. A lieutenant in the Japanese army comes home to his wife and informs her that his closest friends have become mutineers. He and his beautiful loyal wife decide to end their lives together. In unwavering detail Mishima describes Shinji and Reiko making love for the last time and the couple s seppuku that follows."
By now, Yukio Mishima s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary leg...
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The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
ISBN: 9781784879723 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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85,50 |
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Life for Sale
ISBN: 9780525565147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,44 |
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After the Banquet
ISBN: 9780099282785 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife.
For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, ...
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Death in Midsummer
ISBN: 9780241678947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,28 |
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Bekenntnisse einer Maske
ISBN: 9783036961422 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Kochan wächst, abgeschirmt von Jungen seines Alters, im imperialistischen Japan auf. Doch er merkt, dass er nicht das ist, was man von ihm erwartet: Nicht nur ist er körperlich schwächer als andere, er entwickelt auch eine Faszination für Tod, Gewalt, Sex und den männlichen Körper. Unter den strengen Blicken der japanischen Gesellschaft beginnt er, sich eine Maske zu formen, die sein wahres Selbst verbergen soll. Mehr noch: Er will sie sich als neue Identität aufzwingen. Das Mädchen Sonoko und die Heirat mit ihr soll alle, einschließlich ihn selbst, hinters Licht führen.
Kochan wächst, abgeschirmt von Jungen seines Alters, im imperialistischen Japan auf. Doch er merkt, dass er nicht das ist, was man von ihm erwartet: ...
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Spring Snow
ISBN: 9780099282990 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - provincial families, a political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them.
Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - provincial families, a political and soci...
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion: Introduction by Donald Keene
ISBN: 9780679433156 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych.
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully.
Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto's famous Golden Temple. While an acolyte at the temple, he fixates on the structure's aesthetic perfection and it becomes his one and only object of desire. But as Mizoguchi begins to perceive flaws in the temple, he determines that the only true path to beauty lies in an act of...
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsess... |
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106,13 |
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Voices of the Fallen Heroes: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780241723616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2026 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Der Goldene Pavillon
ISBN: 9783036961576 / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 1950 steht der berühmte Goldene Pavillon in Kyoto in Flammen - das Feuer gelegt von einem jungen Mönch des Tempels. Berührt von der Geschichte des jungen Mannes, den er im Gefängnis besucht, verarbeitet Yukio Mishima sie zu einem Roman und formt daraus einen Höhepunkt seines Schaffens. Der junge Mizoguchi stottert und wird von den anderen Kindern ausgegrenzt. Mit jedem weiteren elenden und einsamen Moment wächst seine Sehnsucht nach dem Wahren und Schönen. Als er Novize in einem berühmten Tempel in Kyoto wird, ist er gebannt von der allumfassenden Schönheit des Goldenen Pavillons....
1950 steht der berühmte Goldene Pavillon in Kyoto in Flammen - das Feuer gelegt von einem jungen Mönch des Tempels. Berührt von der Geschichte des ...
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
ISBN: 9780099285670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty.
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stuttere...
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
ISBN: 9780679750154 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence.
Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world -- to them, adult life is illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental. When Noboru's widowed mother is romanced by Ryuji, a sailor, Noboru is thrilled. He idolizes this rugged man of the sea as a hero. But his admiration soon turns to hatred, as Ryuji forsakes life onboard the ship for marriage, rejecting... Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence.
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Forbidden Colours
ISBN: 9780141189567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann's Death in Venice, the older man's longing for the beauty of youth is associated with aestheticism and death.
Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of...
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)
ISBN: 9781784875428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call objectivity. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ships officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousnes...
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The Frolic of the Beasts
ISBN: 9780525434153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Translated into English for the first time, a gripping short novel about an affair gone wrong, from the acclaimed Japanese author, Yukio Mishima. Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beasts tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, Koji; his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakudo; and Ippei's beautiful, enigmatic wife, Yuko. When brought face-to-face with one of Ippei's many marital indiscretions, Koji finds his growing desire for Yuko compels him to action in a way that changes...
Translated into English for the first time, a gripping short novel about an affair gone wrong, from the acclaimed Japanese author, Yukio Mishima. ...
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The Frolic of the Beasts
ISBN: 9780241675311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,28 |
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Leben zu verkaufen
ISBN: 9783036961682 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2023 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. »Leben zu verkaufen. Verfügen Sie frei über mich. Ich bin männlich, 27 Jahre alt und kann Geheimnisse wahren.« Als Hanio diese Anzeige schaltet, ahnt er nicht, was er damit auslöst. Bald findet er sich auf einem wilden Ritt durch eine Welt voller blutrünstiger Gangster, vergifteter Karotten, verzweifelter Junkies und verliebter Vampirfrauen wieder. Während sich um Hanio herum die Leichen sammeln, bleibt er wie durch ein Wunder am Leben und fragt sich, wie diese Höllenmaschine gestoppt werden kann. Nur: Ist es nicht schon viel zu spät für einen Sinneswandel?
»Leben zu verkaufen. Verfügen Sie frei über mich. Ich bin männlich, 27 Jahre alt und kann Geheimnisse wahren.« Als Hanio diese Anzeige schaltet, ...
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62,62 |
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Beautiful Star
ISBN: 9780241441091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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55,31 |
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Runaway Horses
ISBN: 9780099282891 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor's rightful power.
Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the ne...
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