Lives for Sale: Yukio Mishima’s last deep entertainment masterpiece

Compared with meaningless "existence",

Would you rather want everything in front of you to stop abruptly?

Until yesterday, Yu Rennan was still a conscientious office worker.

Now he discovered that the world is just a newspaper covered with typefaces like cockroaches.

Life has no meaning. The passion has long since burned out.

Joy and happiness are like chewing gum - as you chew it, the taste suddenly disappears.

In the end, you have no choice but to spit it out to the side of the road...

"If you can make the world meaningful, then you will die without regrets."

"The world is meaningless, so death is okay."

─He asked himself, where is the balance point between these two feelings?

The answer is "no difference", I want to die anyway!

He hung a sign outside his house that read "Life for Sale".

The story begins here!

A series of absurd, strange and terrifying events,

He actually knocked on his door one step ahead of death...

Breaking away from the pure literary landscape,

An entertainment masterpiece that even senior Mishima fans may not know!

"Suspense, curiosity, unexpected turns..."

"It's completely different from the Mishima works I remember reading."

"Who is Yukio Mishima? I read "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" after reading this book!"

In 1968, the 43-year-old Yukio Mishima began to publish the serial content of "Life for Sale" in "Weekly Playboy". The story begins with a man who has no love in life and publishes a newspaper asking for his life for sale. Peel away the protagonist’s mental transitions of begging for death, attempting to die, and begging to die again.

Because the subject matter was "too advanced", this popular novel did not cause much repercussions in the literary world at the time. Instead, half a century later, its dramatic satire and laughter about "working one's life" attracted urban readers and the younger generation. I deeply resonate with you - Anyone can easily say that life is meaningless. However, to live in the "meaninglessness" requires extremely strong strength!