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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679752706
ISBN-139780679752707
eBay Product ID (ePID)127517
Product Key Features
Book TitleTemple of the Golden Pavilion
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Coming of Age, Historical
Publication Year1994
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorYukio Mishima
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight7.4 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-017825
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"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, "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 Translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal895.63
SynopsisA haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully--and the book that "established Mishima's claim as one of the outstanding writers of the world" ( The New York Times ). Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone and 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.
LC Classification NumberPL833.I7K5513 1994
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