A review by sambiddlestone
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima

3.0

a bit of a jumbled mess - mishima is intent on putting his own personal issues - of which he had plenty - to paper through a tale that can’t really decide if it wants to be allegorical or literal, and its central theses are difficult to separate from the fascist end-point of the author’s own life. yet I find myself immediately wanting more - his writing style is incredibly engrossing, and to delve deeper into the psyche of an incredibly controversial and eventually despicable man in this way - in contrast to Schrader’s filmic interpretation - is very very interesting, and to see how his work correlates with his own mental downfall is hard to pry oneself away from.