Cover art for Forbidden Colours
Published
Penguin Classics, November 2008
ISBN
9780141189567
Format
Softcover, 432 pages
Dimensions
19.6cm × 12.8cm × 3.2cm

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A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics

Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann's Death in Venice, the older man's longing for the beauty of youth is associated with aestheticism and death.

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