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A new selection of Yukio Mishima (author of Spring Snow and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea) short stories from the 1960s—his final decade—Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of Japan’s greatest writers.
In the title story, "Voices of the Fallen Heroes," a séance brings forth the spirits of young officers in the Imperial Army and the kamikaze pilots of World War II, who reproach the Emperor and mourn Japan’s modern decline. In another, Mishima recounts the true story of the time a deranged fan broke into his home at dawn, insisting on meeting the author and imploring him to "tell the truth." Elsewhere, a beautiful youth achieves eternal life through violent murder, and an ill-matched couple seal their fate with a pack of cards, tangled in the web of time and unfulfilled desire.
Available in English for the first time, and carefully selected by a team of expert translators, these captivating stories serve as the perfect introduction to Mishima's work, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Book is good - Narration is just terrible
- De Vyacheslav Varlakov en 03-12-21
De: Yukio Mishima
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Sun and Steel
- De: Yukio Mishima
- Narrado por: Matthew Taylor
- Duración: 2 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 137
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 136
In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known - and controversial - writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end, fits into none of them. The road Mishima took to salvation is a highly personal one. Yet here, ultimately, one detects the unmistakable tones of a self transcending the particular and attaining to a poetic vision of the universal.
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2 out of 5 stars
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SNOOZEFEST
- De Ivan Rueda en 04-17-21
De: Yukio Mishima
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The Woman in the Dunes
- De: Kobo Abe
- Narrado por: Julian Cihi
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 335
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 285
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 285
After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers the locals have other plans. Held captive with seemingly no chance of escape, he is tasked with shoveling back the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten to destroy the village. His only companion is an odd young woman. Together, their fates become intertwined as they work side-by-side at this Sisyphean task.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nihilistic horror
- De Mr. Sagan en 07-20-19
De: Kobo Abe
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
- De: François Rabelais
- Narrado por: Bill Homewood
- Duración: 34 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Here is a grotesque and carnivalesque collection of exuberant, fantastical stories that takes us from the ancient world through to the European Renaissance. At the heart of these tall tales are the giant Gargantua and his equally seismic son, Pantagruel. Containing magical adventures, maniacal punning, slapstick humor, erudite allusions, and just about any bodily function one can think of, here is quite possibly the zaniest, most risqué book ever written.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The king of all the narrators
- De amazon en 02-13-20
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The Glass Bead Game
- De: Hermann Hesse
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 21 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 726
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 558
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 564
Set in the 23rd century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, which has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great – but be warned
- De Michael en 01-02-13
De: Hermann Hesse
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In Praise of Shadows
- De: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 276
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 233
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 231
In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics. Through architecture, ceramics, theatre, food, women, and even toilets, Tanizaki explains the essence of shadows and darkness, and how they are able to augment beauty. He laments the heavy electric lighting of the West and its introduction to Japan, and shows how the artificial, bright, and polished aesthetic of the West contrasts unfavorably with the moody and natural light of the East.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How to listen
- De Anonymous User en 03-25-18
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Doctor Faustus
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 26 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12
Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul—and the ability to love his fellow man.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Literary self flagellation
- De Lipton101 en 02-13-25
De: Thomas Mann
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Hagakure
- The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
- De: Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Alexander Bennett - translator
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the Bushido code.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesome book on samurai history.
- De Christian Knight en 10-02-20
De: Yamamoto Tsunetomo, y otros
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The Easy Life in Kamusari
- Forest, Book 1
- De: Shion Miura, Juliet Winters Carpenter - translator
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I wanted it to be a true story
- De Scott en 05-19-22
De: Shion Miura, y otros
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No Longer Human
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 4 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s NO LONGER HUMAN narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a “clown” to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A voice of depression
- De Owen en 08-28-24
De: Osamu Dazai
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Convenience Store Woman
- De: Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori - translator
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 3 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,739
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,055
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5,047
Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in - neither in her family, nor in school - but when at the age of 18 she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of national convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life. Delighted to be able to exist in a place where the rules of social interaction are crystal clear (many are laid out line-by-line in the store's manual), Keiko does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and mode of speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a "normal" person excellently, more or less.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Am amazing and different story
- De D.R. en 04-10-19
De: Sayaka Murata, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Voices of the Fallen Heroes
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- Mike
- 01-27-25
Death as Art
Among its many posessions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has an entire department devoted to, of all things... weapons.
To read Mishima is to flirt with violent objects. This does not make us readers ourselves macabre; to the contrary, to read Mishima is to ask, "what is our relationship to mortality?" To violences great and small? To all things martial? To death?
You will answer how you will; Mishima only polishes the mirror. This is violence with the business-end sheathed, its ornaments dusted and clean. This is war in a museum case, where all good generals hope to keep it.
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