Neige de printemps

by Yukio Mishima

Deux jeunes amants vivent leurs amours surannées au temps où le Japon tente d'assimiler les modes de l'Occident, alors que la Belle Époque jette ses derniers feux.Kiyoaki Matsugae est issu de l'aristocratie née des récentes transformations politiques de l'ère Meiji, et Satoko Ayakura appartient à une antique famille de la noblesse de Cour. Prisonniers des méandres de leur propre personnage, ils vont éprouver une passion intense et vouée à l'échec, connaissant ainsi le drame du déshonneur.

464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published April 13, 1989

About the author

Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)—a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.