num_pages: 403
description: Written when Mishima was only twenty-six, 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.
language: English
title: Forbidden Colours
titlecomplete: Forbidden Colours
genres: Fiction, Asia, Queer, LGBT, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Gay
ratings_count: 3887
places: Japan, Tokyo
publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd; Prima edizione inglese