Forbidden Colors
An ageing novelist whom three women have made ridiculous meets a young man of perfect beauty who cannot desire women at all, and pays him to marry, to be adored, and to ruin each of them in turn. Yuichi moves between a wife, his patron's money and the bars of occupied Tokyo, learning by degrees what his face is worth. Mishima's fullest treatment of beauty as a weapon held in somebody else's hand.
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