The ultimate way to exist is love and jealousy. A masterpiece that carries Mishima's literary ambitions. "Hunger of Love" is a very representative novel by Mishima Yukio. With delicate psychological description and exquisite writing structure, the work conveys Mishima's unique atmosphere of gloom, perversion, and sadness. Etsuko has always had illusions about love. However, after the marriage, the husband had a new love outside the home, and the couple became extremely estranged. Later, the husband died of illness. The widowed Etsuko moved to the countryside to live with her father-in-law's family. In the remote and lonely countryside, Etsuko projects her fiery and pure passion onto her family's gardener, Saburo. This love burned so fiercely that when Etsuko discovered that the reality was not what she thought, she actually killed Saburo in a mixture of love and hate...
Reader comments
The plot of this book is really heartbreaking. Yukio Mishima portrayed Etsuko's psychology so delicately that I felt her desire and despair for love. The author's writing is very contagious and made me immersed in the story. Although the ending was cruel, it also made me think more deeply about love and humanity. This is a good book worth reading again and again.
The plot of this book is really heartbreaking. Yukio Mishima portrayed Etsuko's psychology so delicately that I felt her desire and despair for love. The author's writing is very contagious and made me immersed in the story. Although the ending was cruel, it also made me think more deeply about love and humanity. This is a good book worth reading again and again.