Дом Кёко

Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) - a star of the 20th century, the most readable Japanese author, the owner of a brilliant talent in the world, became famous for both his works of the widest range and diversity of genres (novels, plays, stories, essays), and a stunning biography (obsession with bodybuilding , extremely right -wing political inclinations, Harakiri after an unsuccessful attempt by a monarchical coup).

"House of Kyoko" is the story of four young people, the regulars of the salon (or parishioners of the temple), in which the mistress (or priestess) Kyoo reigns. These four are four faces of the author himself: a subtly feeling innocent artist, an energetic boxer, obsessed with sports, unclaimed actor -nartzissa, bewitched by his beauty, and a businessman who, pretending to be a careerist, professes nihilism, despises reality and believes in the inevitable end of the world. And with them, Kyo is their mirror, their conductor, in wandering through the hell of modernity, the mistress of the house, where they all find shelter and can open their soul. In the courtyard, the first half of the 1950s - the post -war period in Japan ended, prosperity is already taking root and gradually sprouts out of devastation, but all five do not trust modernity and, looking from the ceno balcony, see only the ruins. A new era - a wall, a dead end, a "giant gap, shapeless and colorless, precisely a reflection of the summer sky in the mirror", as critics wrote, and a half decades, the same intonation will sound with Hyubert Selby Jr.. Four guests and Kyoko will find success for a while, but the fall, disappointment, and death are inevitable for success. Once the doors of Kyoko"s house will close. The end of the world is inevitable. We still still live in his vestibule. The translation of this novel into English fans are looking forward to this day, and we first publish it in Russian