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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
Book 170 out of 200 books
"The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" by Yukio Mishima
"The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" is a novel by Yukio Mishima, first published in the year 1963 but not translated in full English 'til 1965. It is the story of Ryuji, a sailor who has traversed the world's seas and oceans, who is now hoping, after all the adventures in his zenith, to settle down in Yokohama with Fusako Kuroda, a single mother whose husband has passed away years before, and Noboru Kuroda, the adolescent son of Fusako.
MY THOUGHTS:
I just finished reading this novel nearly 2 hours ago and I could say that I am impressed by how Yukio Mishima writes plots correlating with the topic of the ocean and seas. I've read "The Sound of Waves" so I know what Mishima's works are like.
Anyway, this novel was quite an easy read, just like the other Mishima novel I've just mentioned. Maybe because the plot was simple, its prose easy to navigate. This novel doesn't have much of a plot, heck you couldn't exactly call this novel a bildungsroman because the adolescent character in this novel doesn't have much of a ploy but to accept his sailor new father Ryuji into the family.
I do interpret this novel as Mishima's casual life as a person, not as a writer or as a samurai. In the end Fusako marries Ryuji but in the end Ryuji needs to accept that he has a stepson. This novel's title I do interpret as a more misleading one because Ryuji doesn't exactly jump of the water here. More of a euphemism or hyperbole that Ryuji wanted to settle down and have kids with Fusako.
"The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" by Yukio Mishima
"The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" is a novel by Yukio Mishima, first published in the year 1963 but not translated in full English 'til 1965. It is the story of Ryuji, a sailor who has traversed the world's seas and oceans, who is now hoping, after all the adventures in his zenith, to settle down in Yokohama with Fusako Kuroda, a single mother whose husband has passed away years before, and Noboru Kuroda, the adolescent son of Fusako.
MY THOUGHTS:
I just finished reading this novel nearly 2 hours ago and I could say that I am impressed by how Yukio Mishima writes plots correlating with the topic of the ocean and seas. I've read "The Sound of Waves" so I know what Mishima's works are like.
Anyway, this novel was quite an easy read, just like the other Mishima novel I've just mentioned. Maybe because the plot was simple, its prose easy to navigate. This novel doesn't have much of a plot, heck you couldn't exactly call this novel a bildungsroman because the adolescent character in this novel doesn't have much of a ploy but to accept his sailor new father Ryuji into the family.
I do interpret this novel as Mishima's casual life as a person, not as a writer or as a samurai. In the end Fusako marries Ryuji but in the end Ryuji needs to accept that he has a stepson. This novel's title I do interpret as a more misleading one because Ryuji doesn't exactly jump of the water here. More of a euphemism or hyperbole that Ryuji wanted to settle down and have kids with Fusako.