Name: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
ISBN: 9780679752707

A hopeless stutterer, taunted by his schoolmates, Mizoguchi feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. But he quickly becomes obsessed with the temple's beauty, and cannot live in peace as long as it exists.

Book Details

Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: Oct 4th, 1994
Pages: 288
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.01in - 5.22in - 0.62in - 0.53lb
EAN: 9780679752707
Categories: • Literary• Historical - General• Coming of Age

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About the Author

YUKIO MISHIMA was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University's School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, The Sea of Fertility tetralogy--which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)--is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of 45 and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)--a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.

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@bruces By the way, the author of the novel describing the burn of the metaphorical Temple «The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (金閣寺 Kinkaku-ji)» Yukio Mishima ended up badly😢.

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I read a piece about Yukio Mishima years ago in one of the big political magazines—TNR or Weekly Standard seem most likely—and on the to-read list he went. Decades later, I’m finally getting to The Temple of the Golden Pavilion thanks to my school dads book club. https://t.co/xvEwzUGdXl

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Praise for this book

"Established Mishima's claim as one of the outstanding writers of the world." --The New York Times

"Beautifully translated.... Mishima re-erects Kyoto, plain and mountain, monastery, temple, town, as Victor Hugo made Paris out of Notre Dame." --The Nation

"An amazing literary feat in its minute delineation of a neurotic personality." --Chicago Tribune