Goddess

Sugo, the venerable and enlightened patriarch, discovered the secret of feminine beauty in his youth: if one instructs a woman day after day that she is beautiful, she will become beautiful. This approach, refined connoisseur of the beautiful that he... is, he applied over the years to his wife and then to his only daughter. Raising young Asako to be the perfect woman — such is the sinless, yet inexorable passion of this Pygmalion. However, what will happen when the perfect woman enters the world and encounters love and betrayal for the first time?
Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) — a star of 20th-century literature, the most-read Japanese author in the world, endowed with brilliant talent, famous for his works of the widest range and variety of genres (novels, plays, stories, essays), as well as for his astonishing biography (obsession with bodybuilding, far-right political views, harakiri after a failed attempt at a monarchical coup). His "Goddess" is a subtle, partly satirical allegory of creativity (it is believed that Mishima is polemicizing here with the aesthete Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and the tragic figure of Japanese poetry Osamu Dazai) and a piercing story about real people who, in the name of love for the beautiful, attempt to sculpt beauty from living material and as a result are doomed to confront the gods face to face.