MISHIMA – The rest is silence
Dans l’étude sur Mishima déjà citée , parue dans The Durham University Journal, page 271:
“From 1965 to 1970 Mishima wrote and completed his cycle of four novels entitled, ironically, The Sea of Fertility.
He explained that he chose the title to suggest the very opposite, the arid seas of the moon that belies its name: “it superimposes the image of cosmic nihilism on that of the fertile sea“.
The nihilism is gradually revealed in the four volumes and it reaches its final expression in the last volume, The Decay of the Angel.
Having given to this great work all he had, he felt that there was nothing left for him to do.
And so, on the same morning before committing seppuku, he sent the manuscript to his publisher. “The rest is silence“.”
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