The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
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 theMore 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. Less
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Megha rated it really liked it
over 3 years ago
I had a slightly different review in mind until I read a little bit about Mishima's life. In light of what Mishima did to himself, I am not really sure what to make of The Sailor Who. . While it is dark, reading it I knew it was only a story. But knowing that this darkne. Read full review
Parthiban Sekar rated it really liked it
over 1 year ago
THE SAILOR – THE GLORY
Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff. What glory is there for any sailor whose life is besieged by the vast and open sea? Vast but not open, as there are occasional traces of clouds shrouding the openness he longed for. Open but not vast, as the. Read full review
B0nnie rated it really liked it
over 3 years ago
The title The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea is a poetic rendering of the Japanese, åˆå¾Œã®æ›³èˆª, literally "Afternoon's Towing". The English translation is done much in the spirit of Remembrance of Things Past ( A la recherche du temps perdu = "In Search of Lost Tim. Read full review
Fernando rated it liked it
Nunca habÃa leÃdo a Mishima, pero aquà en Goodreads siempre me tomo el tiempo para ver qué es lo que leen mis amigos lectores. Simplemente hago click en la opción “Compare Books†para saber qué afinidad literaria tenemos, sobre todo cuando me envÃan una solicitud de amist. Read full review
Brian rated it it was amazing
over 3 years ago
Knowing the story of Yukuio Mishima's life, and its tragic end, leads the reader of this novel into some dark parts of the author's mind. The characters in this novel are thinly veiled allegorical figures of Mishima's world view: his distaste for Western influences on Jap. Read full review
Michael Finocchiaro rated it it was amazing
This is one of Mishima's shorter stories but it is so beautifully and heartbreakingly written that you almost wish it would be longer. My no-spoiler rule prevents me from giving you any details but if you loved The Old Man and the Sea and want to read a Japanese variation. Read full review
Algernon rated it liked it
over 3 years ago
It is a generally accepted fact that teenagers are weird, all over the world, and all over the ages. Somehow, Japanese teenagers manage to be ten time weirder than the norm, and 13 years old Noboru is a prime example:
He never cried, not even in his dreams, for hard. Read full review
Sinem rated it it was amazing
about 1 month ago
Dehşetin bu kadar romantik bu kadar duygusalını belki de ilk defa okudum. o kadar naif bir anlatim o kadar berrak ve sade ama bir o kadar da başdöndürücü. Muazzam bir eser.
Evan rated it it was amazing
about 1 year ago
"If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything."
Ryuji, the "emasculated" sailor in Mishima's great novel, thinks such thoughts on long sea voyages, standing. Read full review
Aubrey rated it really liked it
The problem with expressing a lack of appreciation for "transgressive" material is the underlying assumption that such an expression is evidence of weakness. Weak stomach, weak nerves, a weak anything that explains why a tolerance for violence is not ready and willing. No. Read full review
An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.
living is merely the chaos of existence.
Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to re-create existence instant by instant. You won't find another job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.