Acts of Worship: Seven Stories

"Most of the elements in Yukio Mishima's novels and in his own brief, dazzling life--homoeroticism, women as objects, muscle sports, worship of the body, death games--are foretold in 'Acts of Worship,' a thoughtful collection of the Japanese writer's short fiction....The seven stories in 'Acts of Worship' affirm his strengths. He captured the mood of a generation in transition from the rubble of defeat to the troubled personal conduct caused by a changing postwar society....At the same time that the short stories in 'Acts of Worship' are peculiarly Japanese in settings and attitudes, they convey a universality of emotion that American readers can find enlightening about a changing, ordered society--even possibly about their own."Yukio Mishima is the author of 'Acts of Worship: Seven Stories', published 2002 under ISBN 9784770028938 and ISBN 4770028938.