Forbidden Colors

 



Yukio Mishima is the most famous and widely read Japanese writer in the world. He became famous equally for his works in every conceivable genre (novels, plays, stories, essays) and for his extravagant lifestyle and death (hara-kiri after an unsuccessful... attempt at a royal coup). In the novel "Forbidden Colors," which completes a kind of trilogy begun by Mishima's most famous novels - "Confessions of a Mask" and "The Golden Pavilion," the aging writer encounters a beautiful young man and transforms him into a weapon of revenge against all the women who once caused him suffering…
«In the meticulousness of psychological analysis, Mishima is akin to Stendhal, and in the depth of examining human tendencies toward self-destruction - Dostoevsky» (The Christian Science Monitor).