The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion

  • The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
    The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
    By Yukio Mishima

    This powerful story of dedication and sacrifice brings together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religion and national history to dazzling effect.

  • The Temple of the Golden Pavilion: Introduction by Donald Keene
    The Temple of the Golden Pavilion: Introduction by Donald Keene
    By Yukio Mishima

    In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man’s obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully.

  • The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
    The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
    By Yukio Mishima

    He quickly becomes obsessed with the beauty of the temple. Even when tempted by a friend into exploring the geisha district, he cannot escape its image. In the novel's soaring climax, he tries desperately to free himself from his fixation.

  • The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
    The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
    By Yukio Mishima

    Based on an actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple, the novel is both a gripping narrative and a meditation on the condition of post-war Japan.

  • The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
    The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
    By Yukio Mishima

    Mizoguchi, an acolyte at a Buddhist temple in Kyoto who also suffers from a childhood stutter, struggles to overcome his obsession with the beauty of the Golden Temple.