Mar da fertilidade: um mergulho no vazio e no silêncio

Abstract

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