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The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion. Translated By Ivan Morris. Introduction By Nancy Wilson Ross

Yukio Mishima

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Description: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.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 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. With an introduction by Donald Keene; Translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion. Translated By Ivan Morris. Introduction By Nancy Wilson Ross. To get started finding The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion. Translated By Ivan Morris. Introduction By Nancy Wilson Ross, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.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 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. With an introduction by Donald Keene; Translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion. Translated By Ivan Morris. Introduction By Nancy Wilson Ross. To get started finding The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion. Translated By Ivan Morris. Introduction By Nancy Wilson Ross, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion. Translated By Ivan Morris. Introduction By Nancy Wilson Ross

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