yukio mishima’s beautiful star was only recently translated and it is quite understandable why.

this novel offers certain beautiful passages about love and family, the prose being characterized by its aestheticism and poetical flow. however, it doesn’t read quite like a novel. the hazy vignettes seemly unrelated to one another and the lack of control and connectivity in its literary occurrences make the book to be rather confusing and nonsensical. the narrative was certainly quite juvenile for this reason.

all in all, mishima knows how to craft a spellbinding sentence, but the storyline was too incoherent and perplexing!

A lovely new edition of a masterful tale from a complicated, timeless author. I’m a huge Mishima fan and so I was very glad to get a chance at reading this.

I wrote a long review and lost it.

Quite a good tale of ETs and UFOs. Juichiro (Dad) was concerned at the destruction of humankind and was trying to stop it, bad aliens were trying to encourage it.

Cleverly wrote in that it was written as an absurd story but in actual fact, take out the UFOs and all that and it was quite real and relevant.

Didn’t feel like rehashing a review so there you have it.

(Posted on Goodreads separately. Note to editors - formatting was really awful, I can usually handle this but the missing letters (namely f, i and l) meant my brain had to stop and complete words manually thus disrupting my flow)