Games of Beasts

An affected literary authority, completely devoid of both conscience and a sense of proportion; his tormented and proud wife, who only brings him sorrow; a young man in love with her, caught in the epicenter of an endless and desperate family catastrophe.
The triangle is the most stable structure and the most dangerous. Love, jealousy, manipulation, a sense of duty, vices, and a stubborn, albeit futile, striving for virtue—such are the games of beasts at the mercy of fate. Everyone will suffer; there is no way out and there will be none; you cannot escape destiny. After you, only a legend will remain, which the village temple's priest will recount at your grave to a passing folklorist.

Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) is a star of 20th-century literature, the most read Japanese author in the world, a man of brilliant talent, celebrated for both his works of the broadest range and diversity of genres (novels, plays, stories, essays) and his astonishing biography (an obsession with bodybuilding, far-right political views, harakiri after a failed attempt at a monarchic coup).
"Games of Beasts" is a novel from his middle, mature period, a deeply psychological, at times bitterly satirical reinterpretation of a classic Noh theater plot, a story about the unity of tormented souls and the impossibility of breaking free from the vicious circle of love and violence.
For the first time in Russian!