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- 2008
- year of publication
- 432
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- penguin_classics
- ISBN-13
- 978-01-4118-956-7
- EAN
- 9780141189567
- Publication date
- 2008-10-02
- Book
- Forbidden Colours · 2 editions
The publisher on this edition
Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann's Death in Venice , the older man's longing for the beauty of youth is associated with aestheticism and death.
