After the Banquet

by MISHIMA, YUKIO

• ISBN13: 9780375705151
• ISBN10: 0375705155
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-22
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

With vast psychological acuity and an unblinking vision of the stratagems of marital warfare, the author tells of the shrewd but charming Kuzu who must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality.

Author Biography

Yukio Mishima was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944. He established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, The Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)—a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.

Table of Contents

1 The Setsugoan	3	(8)
2 The Kagen Club	11	(12)
3 Mrs. Tamaki's Opinion	23	(8)
4 The Leisured Companions	31	(11)
5 Kazu's Interpretation of Love	42	(10)
6 Before the Departure	52	(10)
7 The Omizutori Ceremony in Nara	62	(15)
8 The Wedding	77	(15)
9 The So-called "New Life"	92	(13)
10 Important Visitors	105	(15)
11 "The New Life"--The Real Thing	120	(26)
12 Collision	146	(13)
13 An Obstacle in the Path of Love	159	(10)
14 The Election at Last	169	(28)
15 Election Day	197	(14)
16 Orchids, Oranges, Bedroom	211	(13)
17 A Grave in the Evening Clouds	224	(20)
18 After the Banquet	244	(22)
19 Before the Banquet	266