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Author Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970

Title The temple of the golden pavilion [electronic resource] / by Yukio Mishima ; [translated by Ivan Morris]
Edition 1st Tuttle ed
Published Tokyo ; Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle Pub., 1959
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 262 pages) : illustrations
Series Unesco collection of representative works. Japanese series
Tuttle classics
Summary Mizoguchi has been mentally troubled since he witnessed his mother's infidelity in the presence of his dying father. Mizoguchi feels utterly abandoned and alone until he becomes a pdest at Kinka-kuji, a famous Buddhist temple in Kyoto. Failing in his quest to find the warmth of human companionship in the temple, the young man, tormented by the temple's exquisite beauty, decides to destroy himself and all he loves. He feels he cannot live in peace as long as the temple exists. Mizoguchi, like many other troubled Mishima heroes, becomes obsessed with unattainable ideals
Notes Orig. published in Japanese as Kinkakuji
"First Tuttle edition, 1956."
Subject Young men -- Fiction
Psychological fiction, Japanese -- Japan -- Kyoto
Buddhist temples -- Fiction
Arson -- Fiction
Form Electronic book
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Morris, Ivan
ISBN 9781462902767
1462902766
Other Titles Kinkakuji. English