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The Decay of the Angel

Yukio Mishima

  • 245 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1971
  • 6 editions
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1 About this book

The Decay of the Angel (天人五衰, Tennin Gosui) is a novel by Yukio Mishima and is the fourth and last in his Sea of Fertility tetralogy. It was published in Shinchosha (orig.) on 25 February 1971, three months after Yukio Mishima's suicide.

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  • Psychology
  • Family relationships
  • Japan
  • Relationships
  • Adopted children

2 About Yukio Mishima

1925–1970

Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake; 14 January 1925 – 25 November 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), was a Japanese writer. He is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language. Mishima was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times in the 1960s—including in 1968 when the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata.

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