Forbidden Colours
Author: Mishima, Yukio
ISBN: 9780141189567
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 19 Nov 2008
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics
Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann's Death in Venice, the older man's longing for the beauty of youth is associated with aestheticism and death.
ISBN: 9780141189567
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 19 Nov 2008
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics
Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann's Death in Venice, the older man's longing for the beauty of youth is associated with aestheticism and death.
