Name: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
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Author: Mishima, Yukio ; Estate of Ivan Morris ; Keene, Donald
ISBN: 9780679433156

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Yukio Mishima

Introduction by

Donald Keene

Translated by

Estate of Ivan Morris

Publisher

Everyman's Library

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.1 x 13.2 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.42 kg.

ISBN

0679433155

ISBN13

9780679433156

Synopsis "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion "

In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully. Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto's famous Golden Temple. While an acolyte at the temple, he fixates on the structure's aesthetic perfection and it becomes his one and only object of 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 horrific 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.

Yukio Mishima

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Yukio Mishima (literary name) was born as Kimitake Hiroaka in Tokyo in 1925 and committed suicide in 1970 in protest against the end of traditional Japan. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize, but it was after his death that he achieved international fame. Mishima lived, like so many Japanese of his generation, the clash of two cultural models: the Western and the ancient and own of Japan. A prolific and diverse writer, Confessions of a Mask, his first notable success, made him famous at just twenty-four years old.

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