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My vagabond youth
My vagabond youth
Yukio Mishima Chiu Chen-Jui 译
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「I want to pursue a more innocent love between a man and a woman, not that passionate, frantic kissing kind of love. Just once in a lifetime is enough, I really want to experience an innocent romance.」
Yukio Mishima's most risqué pure confession of love. First love, first kiss, secret revelations of adolescent sexuality unveiled!
The indelible marks of youth "I feel that a boy is like a spinning top. When it first starts to spin, it's very difficult to keep its balance, so it wobbles and doesn't know where it's going to roll. But unlike adults, it just spins first. As it spins, the top gradually stands upright." —Yukio Mishima
《My Wandering Youth》collects 16 essays by Yukio Mishima. In this book, Mishima sheds his isolated and violent samurai persona, discussing his whimsical adolescent thoughts and his romantic life — his curiosity about the opposite sex, his first romantic experiences, his unmentionable sexual fantasies, the lewd jokes and dirty talk among male classmates, the inferiority complex of adolescence and his posturing... . The adolescent Mishima was also a literary youth, full of aspirations for literature, spending his days writing novels and poems. Because he could be called up for military service at any time, and facing unpredictable life and death, he regarded each piece of work as his last. Mishima during that period was undoubtedly the Mishima closest to literature.
The closest to the author's private life, the truest Yukio Mishima
In addition, Mishima also discusses roles other than "writer" in the book: As an adolescent "Falling in love during adolescence is like smoking and drinking; you don't want to be outdone by friends your age, you don't want to be looked down upon by your companions, you just want to join in, no matter what, including the longing to grow up and pure physical desire." —《My Adolescence》
As a student writer "When I wrote novels as a student, I was mostly no different from other students who wrote novels. I also couldn't hide my impetuous anxiety, I liked to overthink things, and I always thought that only by writing novels could I highlight my existence." —《Writing Novels as a Student》
As a reader "I always feel that I don't have the ability to commit evil deeds, but I'm fascinated by my own evil. This is where I started to pay attention to artistic creation, so I often connect beauty and ugliness in my thoughts, because beautiful things must contain shyness and components that should be hidden." —《What My Heart Desires》
As a man who married through an arranged marriage "I don't have too many demands on my wife. From what I've seen, a writer's wife is best as an ordinary woman, and I take that as a basic condition for educating my wife. As for her not being able to cook or sew, I never force her. I even think that her not being good at housework is actually her charming point." —《Writers and Marriage》
As a son "I have always maintained that 'a writer's talent comes from an Oedipus complex.' My mother hoped that I would be a genius, expecting her son to fulfill her dream of being a lyrical poet. Perhaps subconsciously, I am still trying to meet my mother's expectations. Because ever since I became sensible, I started writing poetry. The first reader of my poems and stories was my mother." —《My Mother》
As a film actor "Dog bites man is not news, man bites dog is news. We novelists always write about dog bites man. Perhaps the news that I became an actor this time is as rare as man bites dog, so it has news value. I specifically asked Mr. Masumura to be sure to let me show off my impressive chest hair, and he asked me back if I was really that confident? I haven't shown him yet, so he doesn't know what it looks like." —《I Want to Be an Art Ornament》
As a father "If I think about my son's future as a father, I only wish that he would never become a novelist, no matter what. Even if a novelist can win the admiration of the world, I don't want my son to choose such a dangerous profession, like walking a tightrope in a circus. Novelists seem to like their work, but only novelists understand the true dangers of this profession." —《The Novelist's Son》
Yukio Mishima's most risqué pure confession of love. First love, first kiss, secret revelations of adolescent sexuality unveiled!
The indelible marks of youth "I feel that a boy is like a spinning top. When it first starts to spin, it's very difficult to keep its balance, so it wobbles and doesn't know where it's going to roll. But unlike adults, it just spins first. As it spins, the top gradually stands upright." —Yukio Mishima
《My Wandering Youth》collects 16 essays by Yukio Mishima. In this book, Mishima sheds his isolated and violent samurai persona, discussing his whimsical adolescent thoughts and his romantic life — his curiosity about the opposite sex, his first romantic experiences, his unmentionable sexual fantasies, the lewd jokes and dirty talk among male classmates, the inferiority complex of adolescence and his posturing... . The adolescent Mishima was also a literary youth, full of aspirations for literature, spending his days writing novels and poems. Because he could be called up for military service at any time, and facing unpredictable life and death, he regarded each piece of work as his last. Mishima during that period was undoubtedly the Mishima closest to literature.
The closest to the author's private life, the truest Yukio Mishima
In addition, Mishima also discusses roles other than "writer" in the book: As an adolescent "Falling in love during adolescence is like smoking and drinking; you don't want to be outdone by friends your age, you don't want to be looked down upon by your companions, you just want to join in, no matter what, including the longing to grow up and pure physical desire." —《My Adolescence》
As a student writer "When I wrote novels as a student, I was mostly no different from other students who wrote novels. I also couldn't hide my impetuous anxiety, I liked to overthink things, and I always thought that only by writing novels could I highlight my existence." —《Writing Novels as a Student》
As a reader "I always feel that I don't have the ability to commit evil deeds, but I'm fascinated by my own evil. This is where I started to pay attention to artistic creation, so I often connect beauty and ugliness in my thoughts, because beautiful things must contain shyness and components that should be hidden." —《What My Heart Desires》
As a man who married through an arranged marriage "I don't have too many demands on my wife. From what I've seen, a writer's wife is best as an ordinary woman, and I take that as a basic condition for educating my wife. As for her not being able to cook or sew, I never force her. I even think that her not being good at housework is actually her charming point." —《Writers and Marriage》
As a son "I have always maintained that 'a writer's talent comes from an Oedipus complex.' My mother hoped that I would be a genius, expecting her son to fulfill her dream of being a lyrical poet. Perhaps subconsciously, I am still trying to meet my mother's expectations. Because ever since I became sensible, I started writing poetry. The first reader of my poems and stories was my mother." —《My Mother》
As a film actor "Dog bites man is not news, man bites dog is news. We novelists always write about dog bites man. Perhaps the news that I became an actor this time is as rare as man bites dog, so it has news value. I specifically asked Mr. Masumura to be sure to let me show off my impressive chest hair, and he asked me back if I was really that confident? I haven't shown him yet, so he doesn't know what it looks like." —《I Want to Be an Art Ornament》
As a father "If I think about my son's future as a father, I only wish that he would never become a novelist, no matter what. Even if a novelist can win the admiration of the world, I don't want my son to choose such a dangerous profession, like walking a tightrope in a circus. Novelists seem to like their work, but only novelists understand the true dangers of this profession." —《The Novelist's Son》
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