#the sailor who fell from grace with the sea

[starluvr800]

books i read in 2023

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima

The Stranger, Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus

Heaven, Mieko Kawakami

All The Lovers in The Night, Mieko Kawakami

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

1984, George Orwell

Lord of the Flies, William Goldberg

They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera

Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

would love to discuss any of these/hear recommendations !!

#the sailor who fell from grace with the sea #yukio mishima #the stranger #albert camus #camus #the myth of sisyphus #mieko kawakami #all the lovers in the night #the metamorphosis #franz kafka #kafka #1984 #lord of the flies #they both die at the end #kafka on the shore #haruki murakami

[whilereadingandwalking]

My main piece of advice for anyone looking to read The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, translated by John Nathan, is to please not read the blurb or summary, because what it describes as the key plot turn actually only happens in the final few chapters. Classic blurbs.

This classic is cruel and painful, but in ways that show me why Mishima is considered such a fantastic author. A group of preteens, led by "the chief," think that they are the privileged ones who see the world as it actually is. In a twist of toxic masculinity, they practice "dispassion," coldness, hardness in the face of violence and life's other emotions, good or bad. They have contempt for adults, for the way adults treat them, and most of all, for "softness."

When Noburu's mother begins to date a hardened sailor who believes his fate is glory at sea, Noburu is at first excited. But he's soon disappointed by the man—who isn't, in his mind, what a real man of the sea should be. This book unspools with three point-of-view characters—Noburu, his mother Fusako, and sailor Ryuji—and shows their inner turmoils and questions as Fusako and Ryuji fall for each other, in poetic writing that digs into the deepest hopes and desires of all three of them. The book is sharp-edged, and Noburu's sections are sodden in toxic masculinity, and Mishima uses this to great effect to create a tense thriller out of a love story.

Content warnings for misogyny, animal cruelty, body horror, and mentions of domestic violence, self-harm, suicide attempt.

#the sailor who fell from grace with the sea #yukio mishima #japanese literature #books in translation #translated literature #classics #my book reviews

[enerykai]

um I just finished reading the sailor who fell from grace with the sea and I don't know how to feel?????👁️👄👁️ Like is Ryuji actually literally and metaphorically... you know?????? LIKE BROOO BY 13 YR OLDS IS CRAZYYYY 🫡🫡🫡 at least he kinda got what he wanted???...in a way....💀💀💀 Idkkkkkk I mean ah yes symbolisms and stuff but just let me comprehend what the flying fuck just happened in the last 3 chapters😭😭😭

#books #the sailor who fell from grace with the sea #literature #fiction #yukio mishima

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea | Author: Yukio Mishima | Publisher: Vintage (1994)

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[tensionesuperficiale]

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[jesush8r]

#yukio mishima #watchlist #the sailor who fell from grace with the sea

[the-portrait-of-seraph]

This Week's Book is...

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima!!!!

I love Mishima, if you haven't noticed-

Also, my TOEFL exam went great!!! I got a 53/60 on the first half of the test, but I completely ruined my chances for speaking lol

#hyeji reads 📚 #books and reading #japanese lit #mishima yukio #the sailor who fell from grace with the sea #japanese literature #reading #modern literature #literature

[emmawoodhaus]

i knew The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea was fucked up in a Lord of the Flies way but it’s so much worse, it makes those english boys look tame imo

#the sailor who fell from grace with the sea #Yukio Mishima #people who list it as their favorite books 🚩🚩

[morfitties]

Sometimes I remember The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea and then I remember that one quote in it and rub my temples so hard they erode

#the sailor who fell from grace with the sea

[nicklloydnow]

Happy Father’s Day

“There is no such thing as a good father because the role itself is bad. Strict fathers, soft fathers, nice moderate fathers—one’s as bad as another. They stand in the way of our progress while they try to burden us with their inferiority complexes, and their unrealized aspirations, and their resentments, and their ideals, and the weaknesses they’ve never told anyone about, and their sins, and their sweeter-than-honey dreams, and the maxims they’ve never had the courage to live by—they’d like to unload all this silly crap on us, all of it! Even the most neglectful fathers, like mine, are no different. Their consciences hurt them because they’ve never paid attention to their children and they want the kids to understand just how bad the pain is—to sympathize!”

#mishima #yukio mishima #fathers #fathers day #sailor who fell from grace with the sea

[haveyoureadthispoll]

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea tells the tale of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who 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 ship's officer, he and his friends idealize the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard their disappointment in him as an act of betrayal on his part, and react violently.

#book: the sailor who fell from grace with the sea #author: yukio mishima #genre: japanese literature #genre: classics #genre: literary #year: 1960s

[starluvr800]

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima

This book is a dive into the mind of Mishima. The story can be interpreted as an allegory for the westernization of Japan, which in Mishima's view, was its "fall from grace." Death is also a clear theme, constantly explored and referenced as the ultimate of life, the beauty of it. Fitting, considering Mishima’s obsession with death, which led to him committing seppuku and becoming the last widely known case to follow the traditional Japanese ritualistic suicide.

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[cinemajunkie70]

Happy Birthday in the afterlife to Yukio Mishima!

#yukio mishima #the sailor who fell from Grace from the sea #confessions of a mask #the sound of waves #sun and steel #spring snow #the temple of the golden pavilion #patriotism #books #movies #black lizard

[teningosui]

diversity loss: one of the novels i wanted to read so badly got translated by a person i do not really like and who does butchered up translations + one of the professors i do not, well, like, did some additional explanations of the book

#drij.exe #its actually the serbian translation of sailor who fell from grace with the sea #and i wanted to read it so badly bc litchi hikari club was inspired by it #but i had a dispute with said professor about mishima and comprehension of his works #so it's kinda 🤡 but i can' #can't take her seriously since she said mizoguchi was mishima's self insert so 🚬

[longingpolaris]

I finished reading The Sound of Waves! I found it quite good, but more due to the writing than the plot. Mishima was such a good writer, beautiful prose...

#however I must mention that because the only other book of his that I've read is the sailor who fell from grace with the sea #and because I know who this man is #I kept waiting for something fucked up to happen #bad things do happen in the story but not as I was expecting #I didn’t expect a happy ending lol

[pattern-recognition]

i think having sex with an ill-fated sailor ensconced in an air of tragic masculinity would be good for me

#reading the sailor who fell from grace with the sea