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Forbidden Colours

Mishima, YukioMarks, Alfred H.(Translated by)
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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.

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Penguin Classics
0141189568 / 9780141189567
Paperback / softback
895.635
02/10/2008
United Kingdom
English
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428 p.
20 cm
Reprint. This translation originally published: London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1968.