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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.

Forbidden Colours

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    A Paperback / softback by Yukio Mishima, Alfred H. Marks

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 2 October 2008
      ISBN-13 9780141189567
      978-0141189567
      ISBN-10 0141189568

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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