House of Keko. Mishima Yu.

Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) - a star of the 20th century, the most readable Japanese author, the owner of a brilliant talent in the world, became famous for both his works of the widest range and diversity of genres (novels, plays, stories, essays), and a stunning biography (obsession with bodybuilding, extremely right -wing political inclinations, Harakiri after an unsuccessful attempt by a monarchical coup). “Kyoko’s house” is the story of four young people, the regulars of the salon (or parishioners of the temple), in which Kyoko reigns. These four are four faces of the author himself: a subtly feeling innocent artist; energetic boxer obsessed with sports; unclaimed actor-nartziss, fascinated by its beauty; And a businessman who, pretending to be a careerist, professes nihilism, despises reality and believes in the inevitable end of the world. And with them, Kyo is their mirror, their conductor in wandering through the hell of modernity, the mistress of the house, where they all find shelter and can open their soul.

In the courtyard, the first half of the 1950s-the post-war period in Japan ended, prosperity is already boring roots and gradually germinates from devastation, but all five do not trust modernity and, looking from the balcony of Kyo, see only the ruins. A new era - a wall, a dead end, “a giant gap, shapeless and colorless, precisely a reflection of the summer sky in the mirror,” as critics wrote; After a decade and a half, the same intonation will sound at Hubert Selby Jr.. Four guests and Kyoko will find success for a while, but the fall, disappointment, and death are inevitable for success. Once the doors of Kyoko's house will close. The end of the world is inevitable. We still still live in his vestibule.

The translation of this novel into English fans are looking forward to this day, and we first published it in Russian.