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The space of romance and suspense constructs a thorough human nature. The thirteen short stories written by Yukio Mishima, a master of contemporary Japanese literature, from his youth to middle age for more than 20 years, are small and concise in length, with rich and circuitous themes. You can feel Mishima's rich and full expressions. "Tales from the End of the World" is a short story written by Yukio Mishima. It is written in the first person and follows memories based on the memories of when I was eleven years old and vacationed with my family on the Boso Peninsula's Saigaura Coast. Because I refused my father's request for swimming practice, "I" met a young man and woman on the Cape. They played a hide-and-seek game with "me", and while "I" was blindfolded and counting, a sound like a noble bird's call came from the cape. When "I" went to look for them, there was no trace of them. Although I was young, "I" also knew that they ended their lives by sacrificing their lives for love. After that, "I" was scolded by my father for not learning to swim, but I felt incredibly satisfied because "I" remembered a real life-threatening incident. The other twelve short stories in the book span different periods and have different themes.

"A serious pseudo-heroic biography" is a novel written by Mishima Yukio based on real events. It reflects the spiritual vacillation of post-war youth and the restlessness of society. The detailed psychological description analyzes the characters to the point of being revealed. "To this day, it still uncontrollably contains my incredible attachment." This work has a unique status and emotion in Mishima's heart. "The Blue Age" is the fifth novella by Mishima Yukio. It is based on the Light Club Incident (a case in which students from the University of Tokyo initiated black market financial transactions and violated the law). Makoto Kawasaki, a young talent who grew up in a prominent family in a local city, was severely disciplined by his father since childhood, and therefore developed resistance to his father. Cheng is obsessed with rationalism, and took the opportunity of being victimized in a large-scale fraud case to establish an illegal loan sharking financial company. The plan that I thought could successfully conceal the truth and make a net profit was thwarted. Cheng's youth experienced a lonely and nihilistic disillusionment. Mishima Yukio uses an ironic and exaggerated style to give his works a sharp warning and reflection.

The second part of the "Sea of ​​Plenty" tetralogy. Eighteen years after Kiyoaki's death, Shigekuni Honda reached the age of thirty-eight in the seventh year of the Showa era and became a judge of the Osaka Public Prosecutor's Court. He met Ionuma Isao, who was reincarnated by Kiyoaki, at the Sanko Falls in Miwa Mountain. At this time, Iinuma was deeply influenced by "Kamikaze Renshi Huan" and loyal to the declining royal family without hesitation. He was preparing to assassinate the leader of the financial world at that time. Honda once wrote a long letter to Ionuma, telling him that "Kamikaze Renshi Huan" is a tragedy that has ended.

"The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" is a novel written by Yukio Mishima based on the true incident in 1950 when a monk of the Temple, Lin Yangxian, set fire to the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. It mainly tells the story of Mizoguchi, a young man who was born with stuttering and came from a poor countryside to become a monk at the Kinkaku Temple. He was obsessed with the beauty of the Kinkaku Temple all day long and imagined the magnificent scene of dying with the Kinkakuji in the flames of war. However, the end of the war made this wish disappear forever. In despair, he resolutely burned the Golden Temple to the ground. By burning down the Golden Temple, Mizoguchi eliminated the demonic barriers that once existed in his mind. The alienated image of the Golden Temple no longer existed. His originally suppressed humanity was released, and his horizons shackled by phantoms were also expanded. Destruction became the path to rebirth.

The young Mizoguchi had always had low self-esteem due to his physical defects and even lost the confidence and joy of life. His only spiritual support was the pursuit of beauty in the famous tourist attraction Kinkakuji Temple. However, he increasingly felt that the eternal existence of beauty was an obstacle to the pursuit of secular life, so he finally burned the Kinkakuji Temple and got rid of the restriction of "beauty" on life. The image of human beings being easily destroyed reveals the illusion of immortality, while the solid beauty of Kinkaku-ji Temple reveals the possibility of destruction. This book is a sign of the maturity of Mishima's unique aesthetics.

The psychedelic forest of flowers where love and death breathe freely is a collection of Yukio Mishima's self-selected short stories, a summary of the author's writing growth history. This book collects a number of short stories that Mishima Yukio established and fixed with various techniques and perfect questions in the early days of his creation. The literary themes and realistic problems related to the author's life are all contained in them. The title work "Forest in Bloom" is Mishima Yukio's debut novel when he was sixteen, written in 1941. In the diary of "my" ancestor, Mrs. Ximing, there is a record of a "miracle" that is almost hallucination. A Heian Dynasty woman who has a close relationship with "my" ancestor is very afraid of the sea, while "my" grandmother's aunt had a passionate yearning for the sea when she was young. These "miracles", "fear" and "yearning" are all manifestations of the "longing" living in the body and its transformation, and are intertwined with blood, writing the fate of life and death in "my" own life, dreams and illusions.

"Chao Sao" is a novella written by Yukio Mishima in 1953 after traveling to Kamishima. The story is set on an isolated island. The people on the island are simple-minded and have made a living by fishing for generations. Here, a pastoral and pastoral pure love sprouts. Shinji, a fisherman from a poor family, met and fell in love with Hatsue, a lady from a wealthy family. However, their relationship was not always smooth sailing. They were jealous of others and were also opposed by Hatsue's father. With their unswerving love, the two finally got married.

Yukio Mishima's drama masterpiece, published in Chinese for the first time, is a dramatic demonstration of the mysterious madness of "normal" men and women. The more despicable, cruel, immoral, and filthy human affairs are, the more they need to be described in elegant language. After Sade was imprisoned, the Marquise de Sade remained chaste throughout her life and ran to rescue her husband from prison. In old age, when Sade was free, she suddenly broke up with him. Hidden within this mystery is something real and incomprehensible about human nature. With Madame de Sade as the center, the six female characters in the play respectively represent chastity, morality, God, sensuality, innocence, and the people. They move intertwinedly like planets, and the conflict of ideas forms the climax of the drama.

The young Mizoguchi was born with a stammer. He was withdrawn since childhood and loved the Golden Temple. After his father's death, he followed his last wish and became a monk at the Kinkakuji Temple. During the war, he imagined that the Golden Temple would be destroyed by air raids, but the war never affected Kyoto. At school, he befriended Kashiwagi, who was lustful and had a disabled foot. After successive encounters with the death of his friend Tsurukawa and the indecency of the abbot, he finally burned the Golden Pavilion to the ground on a rainy night. Perhaps, there is a golden pavilion in everyone's heart. It contains desperately desired dreams and obsessions. These dreams and obsessions may also be a kind of beauty. Because I yearn for beauty, I want to destroy it.

A best-selling novel serialized at the same time as "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" but with a completely different style, it is a romantic comedy that transcends identity barriers under the long spring sun. "The Long Spring" is a brisk best-selling novel by Mishima Yukio. Ikuo, a law student at T University, and Momoko, the daughter of a used bookstore owner, are engaged lovers. The two overcame their differences in family background and finally came together. Now, as long as Yuxiong officially graduates in one year and three months, the two can get married. Although they have been recognized by the people around them and have become a recognized couple, compared with the happiness they felt when they first secretly fell in love, the two gradually felt some shortcomings...

I have always pretended to be a normal person, but "Confessions of a Mask" understood the madness inside me! The starting point of Mishima literature! Japan's epoch-making and bizarre work. My whole life I have been performing against my will. Pain said to me: "You are not human. You cannot interact with people. You are some kind of inhuman, strange and miserable creature." When pretending becomes a habit, can you still distinguish between the mask and the real self?

"The Sun and Iron" is a long prose written by Mishima Yukio in his late period, and it is also a rare autobiographical work in his creative career. In this book, Mishima uses poetic language full of symbolism to elaborate on inner contradictions and conflicts from various angles. He condensed his own beliefs into the sun, and the sun was the external glory of the muscle shape, reflecting the muscles. Iron is the form of the inner strength of muscles. Only after experiencing the training of the sun and iron can the body maintain its eternal glory and bear all value. "The Sun and Iron" is an important work in which Mishima Yukio reveals his inner thoughts and aesthetics. It is also a key text in interpreting the mystery of his death.

Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, the genius writer who brought Japanese literature into the top position in the world literary world, and the god of young literary and artistic people - Mishima Yukio's extreme writing trilogy: the extremely beautiful "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", the extremely pure "Chao Sao", and the extremely loving "Hunger of Love". The latest fine proofreading of the authoritative Chinese translation, the first to be upgraded in 2021, a collector's edition with purple illustrations and hardcover illustrations. "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion": The ultimate beauty is destruction. The pinnacle of Mishima's aesthetics, a benchmark classic novel that is both perfect and original. Anyone can easily feel ashamed when facing the beauty of the Golden Temple. Mizoguchi, a young monk who stutters, is particularly sensitive. Mishima follows Mizoguchi's story, showing one by one the joy, awe, surrender, rebellion, hatred, and even desperate behaviors of defective people in response to "ultimate beauty". It logically completes the functional reversal of "ultimate beauty" from pleasing people to suppressing people. It is shocking to see a young man's relaxed aesthetic activity turn into a tragedy of fighting for his life. This shocking work pushed Japanese literature to a more prominent position in the world literary world upon its debut, and later became a benchmark literary classic that is both perfect and original. "Chao Sao": Only pure love can make the body pure. Mishima's unique work "against himself". 1954 Xinchaoshe Literary Award. Mishima said: "I want to write something that is completely opposite to myself." He changed the tragic concept that all characters have a dark side, and love and beauty to the extreme will inevitably turn into violence and death, and set pure characters and pure love in an Eden-like environment. Only pure love can make the body pure, and thus determine the human body to have the highest aesthetic value. He blended Japanese and Greek classical aesthetics to write this pastoral novel of pure love that can make people feel happy. As soon as the novel was published, it triggered a "name-changing craze". Thousands of Japanese girls changed their names to the name of the character in the novel - Hatsue. "Hunger of Love": If love cannot eliminate loneliness, it will eliminate the lover. A perfect work of Mishima narrative. After the death of Etsuko's husband, she relied on her father-in-law's manor to survive. She seeks a sense of security from her ambiguous relationship with her father-in-law, and longs for pure and dynamic love from the young hired worker Saburo. Etsuko's hunger for love cannot be satisfied after all, and that's because her intimate relationships are established in a twisted way. Many times I try to eliminate loneliness with love, but I end up getting even more lonely. With astonishing insight, Mishima once again exposed the tragic truth of modern people's spiritual level to our eyes with his "extreme writing". The overall structure of "The Hunger of Love" maintains the rigorous pattern of Japanese classical tradition. It is meticulous and exquisite, and the changes in time and space are neatly superimposed. It was highly praised by critics and praised as "the most rigorous work among Yukio Mishima's works."

Yukio Mishima's "New Love Lecture" is sharp, transparent, and has a very vicious vision; he often speaks clearly and unabashedly about the love between men and women. The reality is that it makes people hate how he can be so ruthless. However, one second you hated him, thinking that he was old-fashioned but stale, and that he had the true "daddy taste". The next second I fell in love with him, moved by his honest words about the subtleties of human nature. Sometimes you can't tell whether he is praising, scolding or alienating these various men and women in this world. Do you think he is a pure love warrior? Is it desireism? Is it the game world? However, the ending of his life story is that he died as a martyr, a vigorous interpretation of what is called "the aesthetics of ending"... Readers are invited to take part in the situation, capture Yoshimitsu Kataha here, face the lively and knowledgeable Mishima Yukio, and face his true appearance in love.

A non-vegetarian and non-vegetarian way of commentating on the Japanese state of affairs, laughing, cursing, and pungently satirizing the weaknesses of Japanese human nature - Mishima Yukio and "Morality" as the Enemy 69 Lectures, a rare masterpiece of Mishima Yukio's editorial essays. "Lectures on Immoral Education" is a collection of essays by the famous Japanese writer, novelist, and playwright Yukio Mishima. It contains 69 articles. These articles were first published in the Japanese magazine "Star Weekly" and were social and cultural columns written by Mishima for "Star Weekly". They were published from July 27, 1958 to November 29, 1959. In 1959 and 1960, they were published in two volumes by Chuo Koron Publishing House of Japan. These 69 articles describe, analyze, and comment on specific phenomena and issues from Japan's daily life, interpersonal interactions, social trends, and Japanese morality, emotions, and thinking inertia. Mishima expresses his opinions on Japanese national character in an ironic way, sings the opposite and speaks harsh words. Mishima's insight, psychological analysis ability, dialectical logic, and wild and bold expressions are fully revealed.

"Human love and human appetite for cruelty are basically the same thing." This book collects twelve short stories written by Mishima Yukio from the age of fifteen to forty-four, giving a glimpse of the trajectory of his entire writing career. "The Locked Room" is a collection of short stories by Yukio Mishima, which includes twelve short stories in total. "Stained Glass" is the first work in this book. It mainly talks about pride and prejudice in the upper class society, and depicts the psychological wars with meticulous brushwork. "The Locked Room" tells the story of an abnormal love story between an elite young official and a nine-year-old girl, set in the chaotic and chaotic post-war Japan. Different from the tough and clear writing style in the past, the author in this work uses complicated and decadent writing to describe the loneliness of modern people from the inner level, reflecting the social status quo and the spirit of the times at that time. "The King of Ranling" is Yukio Mishima's last short story, which was based on his simple and plain life in the Self-Defense Forces camp. It describes the protagonist's infinite emotion when he heard "The King of Lanling" played on the flute. Different from the noisy city on weekdays, people feel the quiet life of a hermit. It also includes works such as "Charity", "Monster", "Fruit" and "Beauty God".

"Loneliness swells rapidly, like a fat pig." Mizoguchi, a young man, was born with a stutter, was withdrawn since childhood, and loved the Golden Temple. After his father's death, he followed his last wish and became a monk at the Kinkakuji Temple. During the war, he imagined that the Golden Temple would be destroyed by air raids, but the war never affected Kyoto. At school, he befriended Kashiwagi, who was lustful and had a disabled foot. After successive encounters with the death of his friend Tsurukawa and the indecency of the abbot, he finally burned the Golden Pavilion to the ground on a rainy night. Perhaps, there is a golden pavilion in everyone's heart. It contains desperately desired dreams and obsessions. These dreams and obsessions are also a kind of beauty. Because I yearn for beauty, I want to destroy it.

This is a pure love story that takes place on a small seaside island in Japan. Shinji, a hard-working and brave young fisherman, met Hatsue, a haenyeo who came back from other places, and the two gradually fell in love with each other. Chiyoko, who has always admired Shinji, is jealous of this, and Yasuo, a local rich kid, tries his best to get Hatsue. After experiencing twists and turns such as rumors spread by others and obstruction by their elders, Shinji and Hatsue still have a close bond. Later, during a voyage, Yasuo was greedy for life and feared death at a critical moment, while Shinji risked his life to save Hatsue's father's ship. He was appreciated and respected, passed the test, and was recognized. A pair of lovers finally get married.

The play of a wild beast that coexists sweetness and evil. Published for the first time in the world in simplified Chinese. Yukio Mishima's "The Play of Beasts" is in the same vein as "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" and is extremely symbolistic. Love disputes appear on the surface, but in fact they explore the darkness deep in human nature: a young man (Koji) breaks into the life of a couple (Yipei, Yuko) whose marriage is not satisfactory, and falls in love with his wife. Koji was imprisoned for attacking Yihei. After he was released from prison, Yuko took him to the fishing island where the couple took refuge. The three of them lived together, and the peaceful small fishing island began to quietly fill with a morbid atmosphere. After the attack, Yiping lost the ability to speak and became very demented. Koji decided to become a repentant person, but the relationship between the three became more ambiguous and tense than before the accident. Yiping's silence and Yuko's aloofness push the restless Koji to the extreme of emotion, and finally the three of them usher in destruction...

In the evening of early spring, on the busy beach of Utashima, the boy Shinji saw a beautiful and quiet face, and the girl Hatsue saw a pair of sincere and bright eyes. This silent encounter sparked the spark of love in their hearts. The tide is rolling, the fishermen are singing late, and the innocent and ignorant boys and girls fall in love with each other on the peaceful island. Although there are many tests waiting for the two of them in the near future, they will eventually reap happiness with their kindness and courage...

The boy desperately sentenced the mixture of heroes and criminals, disintegrating the toxic reality with the mark of cleansing. "Afternoon Trawling" ostensibly describes the passionate love story between a middle-aged widow and a sailor. In fact, the focus of the book is the psychological transformation process of the widow's son from extreme admiration to the sailor to disillusionment and finally killing his hero with his own hands. The young boy Deng admired the strong body and spirit of the crew member Long Er. However, when he saw his mother and Long Er embracing each other through the gap in the wall, he was shocked. This man who once had nothing to do with the boring world of the sea also began to consider getting married and gradually adapted to life on land. For Den, this was both an unforgivable humiliation and a declaration of war against a hostile reality. In order to launch a final counterattack against the adult world, Den and his friends prepare to execute Ryuuji, "his future appearance". The sensitive and beautiful sea, the human nature full of erotic entanglements, the inner-twisted young man, and the addictive and even irresistible death give this book a unique, strange and colorful "Mishima-style" brand.

Love is born out of despair, and subtle evil is more beautiful than rough goodness; Mishima Yukio's early novel is a classic work of homosexual description. The old writer Hinoki Shunsuke despised morality and vulgarity and advocated extreme aestheticism. Because he was born ugly, and because his three wives did not love him, he met the handsome gay young man Yuichi and decided to shape Yuichi into a work of art to take revenge on the woman he could not get...

The novel describes the heroine Etsuko who sticks to her chastity and never marries after her husband's death. However, she is often tempted by her father-in-law with a weird personality at home, and she is in panic every day. Soon Etsuko secretly fell in love with the young and strong gardener Saburo, and planned to live a happy life with him. After their love was discovered by her father-in-law, the heroine was very distressed. In the end, she could not maintain this love, so she beat her beloved Saburo to death with a shovel. The novel is an extremely important pure literary novel.

Shinji, who made a living by fishing on Utashima, met the beautiful and lively Hatsue. The two fell in love and began a green love. Yasuo, a young man from a wealthy family, is also in love with Hatsue, and Chiyoko, who has a crush on Shinji, is also jealous. Faced with obstacles from the outside world, disparities in family status, and even challenges from the sea, what kind of future awaits Shinji and Hatsue? .

"Alchemist" Mishima Yukio's experimental love work, recasting artificial love on the ruins of the spirit. "The Submerged Waterfall" is a novel written by Yukio Mishima in 1955. The protagonist of the novel, Shiro Noboru, is a reservoir designer. He is young, handsome and successful in his career, but he is an emotionless person. One day I met Xianzi, a married woman. She had never been passionate about men. Sheng was excited to discover that this was a woman just like him, and he tried to build an "artificial love" with Xianzi that was completely divorced from emotion. But Xianzi was really in love with Sheng. Chengsuosheng was greatly disappointed when he found out. After understanding the situation, Xianzi was completely desperate and committed suicide by throwing himself into the waterfall.