ynbvu 's review for:

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima

2.0

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Really wanted to love this, but didn't. That said, it's still good enough that I kept up with it through out 1L fall. Stunning passages interspersed with absurd & immature heterosexual dynamics disguised as "noblery" or "beauty" or actual love, somehow, of some sort. I understand that I'm supposed to read this in context of and as an analogy to changing Japanese society at the time, but sometimes I had a lot of trouble focusing on the broader symbolism and resisting the urge to roll my eyes at the protagonist's spoiled rich boy energy. Mishima only finds this noble or unique or whatever because he didn't experience high school with a bunch of spoiled boys as a girl. The ending took my breath away, though, for what it's worth.