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The Decay of the Angel: The Grand Conclusion of Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility Tetralogy
"The Decay of the Angel (天人五衰, Tennin Gosui) stands as the monumental final volume of Yukio Mishima’s epic four-part tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility (豊饒の海, Hōjō no Umi). Completed and delivered to his publisher on the very day of his ritual suicide in November 1970, this novel serves as the ultimate philosophical and artistic testament of one of Japan's most complex literary figures. It brings together decades of thematic exploration regarding reincarnation, Buddhist cosmology, aesthetic purity, modernization, and the spiritual bankruptcy of the twentieth century. Understanding The Decay of the Angel requires examining its role as the..."
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