by Yukio Mishima · GALLIMARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782072787928
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«Vie à vendre» is a novel by Yukio Mishima, published by Gallimard in paperback (276 pages, in French).
Hanio Yamada survives a suicide attempt and announces in Tokyo that he is selling his life. A buyer drags him into a spiral of violence: gangsters, spies, drugs and absurd situations. Among corpses, Hanio remains alive and wonders if his life has a price. It is a parody of the crime and espionage genre with Yukio Mishima's ironic humor.
Translated from the Japanese by Dominique Palmé, in the Du monde entier collection. The original Japanese, Inochi Urimasu, was published in 1968.
Interesting for readers of Japanese literature and for fans of crime parody with black humor.
Kimitake Hiraoka, known by his pen name Yukio Mishima, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, short story writer, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku. He is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language.
