The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea Yukio Mishima

The year is 1946 and the island nation of Japan is still reeling from a devastating loss in the Pacific Theater. While the fighting and violence may have subsided in the wake of the West’s domination, a war still rages on in the psyches and souls...

Nihilism plays a dominant role in both Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time and Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. Both novels target a particular character to be made an example, but the circumstances of this undertaking are notably...

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea aroused a lot of controversy in the world's literary society. As a classic example of Yukio Mishima's later works, it combined themes and motifs that were borderline acceptable and unusual for the...

Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea follows the struggles of a young band of boys who strive to restore a sailor, Ryuji, to his former glory by taking his life and subjecting his remains to dissection. They became...