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Original Title:	金閣寺
ISBN:	0679433155 (ISBN13: 9780679433156)
Edition Language:	English

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Yukio Mishima

Hardcover | Pages: 247 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 11129 Users | 760 Reviews

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Title	:	The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Author	:	Yukio Mishima
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 247 pages
Published	:	1995 by Everyman's Library (first published 1956)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature

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 In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting and vivid 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 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.

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Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Since childhood, I didn't like descriptions or texts without dialogs. I just skipped these parts. But strangely enough I also didn't like plays. Recently I've been reading both a lot. This was one of the most satisfying readings of the year, along with The Remains of the Day and Chocolate. I started reading this book at the same time with American Gods and at first I thought I shall abandon this book and read the former book. I always do so when I am reading a classic along with some fast

Philosophy and art.Kink, death, and destruction. In 1968, Japanese author Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide to protest the Westernization of his country.In 1950, Hayashi Yoken, a Buddhist monk, set fire to the ancient Zen temple called Kinkaku for reasons known only to him.Mishima provides a fictional retelling of Yoken's crime in The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. The novel is a favorite of mine, but it is not a book one actually likes.Mizoguchi, the fictional arsonist, tells his story,

This book was so good it got me to map out a cycle route between "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" itself, which lies to the north of Kyoto, and Maizuru - which as readers of the book will know is the home town of its (anti) hero and which gets quite a few mentions.Anyone interested in the ride can find the directions here: Homage to Yukio Mishima. About 107km avoiding main roads but climbing up to 700m.Not done myself yet, but if I have a chance to do it, I'll add some pictures!

"I walked back and forth in front of the Nishijin police station. It was evening and several of the windows were brightly lit. I noticed a police-detective hurrying into the building. He was wearing an open-neck shirt and was carrying a briefcase. No one paid any attention too me. No one had paid any attention to me during the past twenty years and under present conditions this was bound to continue. Under present conditions I was still a person of no importance. In this country of Japan there

To be sure, there are times when the reality of the outer world seems to be waiting for me, folding its arms as it were, while I was struggling to free myself. But the reality that is waiting for me is not a fresh reality. When finally I reach the outer world after all my efforts, all that I find is a reality that has instantly changed colour and gone out of focus- a reality that has lost the freshness that I had considered fitting for myself, and that gives off a half-putrid odour."Mishima is

How wonderfully freaked out is this book? It's about a young, introverted zen priest who becomes obssessed with a six hundred year old temple to the exclusion of everything else in his life, and then decides it has to be burned down to the ground. And it actually happened! Mishima is just brilliant at sucking you into the world of Mizoguchi's damaged neurosis. And almost every paragraph has at least one mind-fuck brilliant observation about beauty, ugliness, love, obsession, destruction, what