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After the Banquet

Yukio Mishima

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Jan 02, 2010 Sarah Magdalene rated it it was amazing

After The Banquet....hahaha! I was reading this one just after the election which was appropriate seeing as it all about politics, and about marriage. Mishima is good at describing the hell that is marriage. He knows exactly how it all works. He understands women extremely well and his women characters are always surprising, usually very powerful and always palpably real. The heroine of this tale Kazu is a formidable self made woman and a great natural politician.
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Aug 24, 2019 Killer of Dreams rated it did not like it · review of another edition

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. “After the Banquet” is another well-structured novel by Yukio Mishima with a resounding lesson at the end of the book that I interpreted as “the falseness of human nature in politics displays human nature better than ingenuity of human nature in life”. The novel follows a loop where Kazu lives happily with her position at the Setsugoan, believing that she has learned everything in life, leaves to pursue a life with Noguchi in politics, and then returns to the Setsugoan with experience.

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