Open AccessMar da fertilidade: um mergulho no vazio e no silêncio
Author(s) -
Alexandre Lúcio Sobrinho
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
estudos japoneses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-7125
pISSN - 1413-8298
DOI - 10.11606/issn.2447-7125.v0i34p9-19
Subject(s) - impermanence , reincarnation , emptiness , buddhism , theme (computing) , fertility , philosophy , sociology , epistemology , theology , demography , computer science , population , operating system
This essay intends to analyze how the Buddhist theme of “reincarnation” and the concept of impermanence were used in the work Sea of Fertility, by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). Besides, it is our intention to prove that the adoption of the Buddhist theme of “reincarnation” as a linking element of each volume of Sea of Fertility deepens the reader into an existential emptiness, both aesthetically and philosophically. Thus, this essay is the experience of a reader, who saw, in a work whose title is Sea of Fertility, paradoxally, an emptiness