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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Yukio Mishima

Hardcover | Pages: 247 pages

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

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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. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

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Title	:	The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Author	:	Yukio Mishima
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special 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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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

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,

English: The Temple Of The Golden PavilionThis classic novel is based on a real incident: In 1950, an aspiring Buddhist monk set fire to the title-giving Golden Pavilion, a 14th century Zen temple in Kyoto. Mishima was fascinated by the story of the young criminal who at the trial stated that he wanted to destroy the building because of its beauty - the author, whose own obsession with beauty is reflected throughout his works, even visited the arsonist in prison while working on the

Only the Japanese can write books like this, I feel. Lyrically beautiful, aesthetically driven, thoroughly homoerotic, unsettlingly fascist at points, violently modernist, violently anti-modernist, violently violent, operatically melodramatic, sexually repressed, profoundly Buddhist, religious, anti-religious, and set in a landscape of burned temples and told by a misanthropic outsider. Lord I want to go there.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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!

4 and a half stars, rounded up.In 1950, a young monk set the beautiful Kinkaku-Ji, or Golden Pavilion, on fire. This acolyte was arrested but ultimately released, as he was declared mentally ill. This act of arson shocked Japan deeply, as the building was a protected national monument, and special instructions had even been given so that it not be damaged during the War and occupation. Knowing what we know about Mishimas politics and interests, Im not surprised that the event fascinated him: he