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Forbidden Colours

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.