Name: Five Modern noh Plays (in English)
Price: 22.28 USD
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Author: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9781787702981

portada Five Modern noh Plays (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yukio Mishima

Publisher

Europa Editions

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781787702981

Five Modern noh Plays (in English)

Yukio Mishima (Author) · Europa Editions · Paperback

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Synopsis "Five Modern noh Plays (in English)"

A great, ancient art form, brought right up to date by one of Japan’s foremost writersNoh is a form of classical Japanese dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century. Based on tales from traditional literature, and structured according to strict rules, at the heart of Noh often lies an accidental encounter through which the workings of Fate are revealed. Often one of the persons is not what he or she seems to be: perhaps a ghost, or a character who has suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune. These five pieces, written between 1950 and 1955 and presented as modern plays at the time, are as suited to being performed on any stage in the world, as they are to being read in Donald Keene’s pitch-perfect translation. In them, Yukio Mishima preserves the weird and haunting mood of classical Noh, whilst lending his characters and situations the directness and hardness of an encounter on a modern city street.

Yukio Mishima

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Yukio Mishima (nombre literario) nació como Kimitake Hiroaka en Tokio en 1925 y se suicidó en 1970 en protesta por el fin del Japón tradicional. Estuvo nominado para el premio Nobel, pero fue después de su muerte cuando alcanzó fama internacional. Mishima vivió, como tantos japoneses de su generación, el embate de dos modelos de cultura: la occidental y la propia y milenaria del Japón. Escritor plural y fecundo, Confesiones de una máscara, su primer éxito notable, le hizo famoso con tan sólo veinticuatro años.

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