the sailor who fell from grace with the sea - yukio mishima

comment:

it reminds me with william golding "lord of the flies", especially when a bunch of boys were disecting a kitten without any certain emotional feelings (please if you can't stand animal torturing, flip over the page). towards the end, the novel was full of chilling tension and mishima just end it without any hush of uncovering the cruelty of what might happen. he leave it to us to play with our imagination using our dark side of human being.



this novel all started with a thirteen year old boy, noburo who watches a man make love to his mother. it effects him slowly and it all contribute on building his cold hearted character to be even stronger. he wanted a revenge and with his gang, noburo eventually convince to do it. it's unpredictable to see how what we thinks is harmfull can be full of such cruelty and violence.