Thirst for love

To suffer; within this feeling revolves the novel "Thirst for Love" and it slightly distances itself to return to a deeper touch of its core. That it is told about suffering, love, life, and a family atmosphere surrounded by a certain environment is not a very special matter, but that it is narrated in a style like Yukio Mishima makes it more profound, impactful, magical, and most importantly poetic and emotional. If I wanted to describe this novel, I would use many words like feeling, emotion, and depth, because I truly did not understand all those meanings from the "most impactful" side except during "Thirst for Love," as I was taken by its atmosphere and events after surpassing fifty pages, and how hard it was to stay away from it. I only realized why after I could better understand the Japanese atmosphere, the characters of the novel, and Mishima's style, and I understood the reason; Mishima wrote simply and deeply at the same time, narrating the events smoothly, but the depth surprises us with long, impactful, and philosophically analytical passages. I will never forget the sentences that suddenly appear to stick in our memory immediately. Here, we will read much about love, not as it is usually read or written. Itsuko, who traveled through life with her destiny encompassing everything, which all came together to happen in waves, was her internal suffering and death that she did not care about at all. Itsuko, the young woman whose suffering began with her husband, and from here, the meanings and events of the novel are drawn. We get to know the love that cannot be born between two, even if there is a bond between them. We learn about the sudden jealousy of the death of the other! Wishing for death to experience it, perhaps because it is a comfort — in the novel character's view, perhaps several meanings appear, including that life is a suffering that renews itself or a suffering that accumulates until it reaches a certain limit, then moves to another point to fill it again — that was her life. Many questions will come to mind as we read Mishima and "Thirst for Love," especially when it is deeply narrated about the feeling of love from one side... about numbness that appears from intense suffering and sorrow... about the strength gathered in a moment. My simple words certainly have no meaning because they will seem ordinary, but once read in Yukio Mishima's style, the difference will occur. I will not forget the enchanting Japanese countryside atmosphere; I was greatly taken by its mood (every time I reach a description... I remember old images from cartoons). Just imagining that was something magical. I will stop here to say briefly that "Thirst for Love" is a wonderful and very impactful novel, and Yukio Mishima is a very great novelist. Anyone who wants to read depth, simplicity, another world, inner feeling, and philosophical style should read it without hesitation. This enchanting novel has become one of the novels I think about reading again.