After the Banquet
- Auteur: Yukio Mishima (Japan)
- Soort boek: Japanse roman
- Origineel: 宴のあと/ Utage no Ato (1960)
- Engelse vertaling: Donald Keene
- Uitgever: Vintage Classics
- Verschijnt: 5 december 2024
- Omvang: 288 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
Yukio Mishima After the Banquet recensie, review en informatie
- “His most novelistic work, with a degree of earthiness and warmth rare in his fiction.” (New York Times)
- “Direct yet allusive, poetic…an amazing feat.” (Atlantic)
Flaptekst van de roman van Yukio Mishima uit 1960
For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness – then she falls in love.
The man is one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, and she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit. Eventually Kazu must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. After the Banquet is a magnificent portrait of political and domestic warfare and love in later life.
Yukio Mishima was born on 14 January 1925 in Yotsuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, into a samurai family and imbued with the code of complete 
control over mind and body, and loyalty to the Emperor – the same code that produced the austerity and self-sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless short stories and thirty-three plays, in some of which he acted. Several films have been made from his novels, including The Sound of Waves; Enjo, which was based on The Temple of the Golden Pavilion; and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea. Among his other works are the novels Confessions of a Mask and Thirst For Love and the short-story collections Death in Midsummer and Acts of Worship. He comitted suicide by seppuku on 24 November 1970 in JGSDF Camp Ichigaya in Ichigaya, Japan at the age of 45 years.