The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
of Yukio Mishima, Ivan Morris (Translation)
Description
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting and vivid portrait of a young manâs obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully.Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyotoâs famous Golden Temple. While an acolyte at the temple, he fixates on the structureâs aesthetic perfection and it becomes the one and only object of his desire. But as Mizoguchi begins to perceive flaws in the temple, he determines that the only true path to beauty lies in an act of horrendous violence. Based on a real incident that occurred in 1950, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion brilliantly portrays the passions and agonies of a young man in postwar Japan, bringing to the subject the erotic imagination and instinct for the dramatic moment that marked Mishima as one of the towering makers of modern fiction. With an introduction by Donald Keene; Translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris.(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 247 pages
- Publisher Everyman's Library
- Publication Date 1995
- First Publication 10/28/56
- Language English
- ISBN 9780679433156
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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