Школа плоти

Taėko, vladelit͡sa tokiĭskogo atelʹe, - sostoi͡avshai͡asi͡a, uverennai͡a v sebe, blagopoluchnai͡a zhenshchina. Eĭ tridt͡satʹ devi͡atʹ let, u nee za plechami razvod, modnit͡sy vystraivai͡utsi͡a k neĭ v ocheredʹ, raz v mesi͡at͡s ona vstrechaetsi͡a s podrugami, chtoby obmeni͡atʹsi͡a rasskazami o tekushchikh prikli͡uchenii͡akh, v tom chisle romanticheskikh - ne golovokruzhitelʹnykh, odnako zani͡atnykh. Taėko vrashchaetsi͡a v vysshem svete - skuchnom, tshcheslavnom, lit͡semernom, no privychnom. A v odin prekrasnyĭ denʹ ona po ushi vli͡ubli͡aetsi͡a v dvadt͡satiletnego barmena, t͡sinichnogo krasavt͡sa bez grosha v karmane, no s ambit͡sii͡ami, i ee nalazhennai͡a zhiznʹ letit kuvyrkom. . . I͡Ukio Misima (1925-1970) - zvezda literatury XX veka, samyĭ chitaemyĭ v mire i͡aponskiĭ avtor, obladatelʹ blistatelʹnogo talanta, proslavivshiĭsi͡a kak svoimi rabotami shirochaĭshego diapazona i raznoobrazii͡a zhanrov (romany, pʹesy, rasskazy, ėsse), tak i oshelomitelʹnoĭ biografieĭ (oderzhimostʹ bodibildingom, kraĭne pravye politicheskie vzgli͡ady, kharakiri posle neudachnoĭ popytki monarkhicheskogo perevorota). Misima - tonkiĭ psikholog, i ego "Shkola ploti", roman o silʹnoĭ zhenshchine v plenu silʹnoĭ strasti, blesti͡ashche ėkranizirovannyĭ Benua Zhako s Izabelʹ I͡Upper v glavnoĭ roli, - nagli͡adnoe tomu dokazatelʹstvo. Ėto istorii͡a o tom, chto zhenskai͡a druzhba krepche li͡ubykh muzhskikh kli͡atv, li͡ubovʹ neotlichima ot borʹby za vlastʹ, i vopros tolʹko v tom, kto smozhet sokhranitʹ sebi͡a i vyĭdet pobeditelem v finale. Vpervye na russkom!

Taeko, the owner of a Tokyo atelier, is an accomplished, self—confident, prosperous woman. She is thirty—nine years old, she has a divorce under her belt, fashionistas line up with her, once a month she meets with her friends to exchange stories about current adventures, including romantic ones - not dizzying, but entertaining. Taeko moves in high society — boring, vain, hypocritical, but familiar. And one day she falls head over heels in love with a twenty-year-old bartender, a cynical handsome man without a penny in his pocket, but with ambitions, and her well-adjusted life is flying upside down ... Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was a star of twentieth—century literature, the world's most widely read Japanese author, the owner of a brilliant talent, famous for his works of the widest range and variety of genres (novels, plays, short stories, essays), and a stunning biography (obsession with bodybuilding, extreme right-wing political views, hara-kiri after an unsuccessful attempt at a monarchical coup). Mishima is a subtle psychologist, and his "School of the Flesh," a novel about a strong woman in the thrall of intense passion, brilliantly adapted by Benoit Jacot with Isabelle Huppert in the title role, is clear proof of this. This is a story about how female friendship is stronger than any male vows, love is indistinguishable from a power struggle, and the only question is who can save themselves and come out victorious in the final. For the first time in Russian!