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Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Paperback)

by Yukio Mishima (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Books; Reprint edition (1 Feb 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0679752706
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679752707
  • Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13.2 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,918,347 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"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

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4.0 out of 5 stars Inside the mind of the man who burned the Golden Pavilion, 6 Dec 2000
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This review is from: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Everyman's Library Classics) (Hardcover)
In 1950 a mentally unbalanced student of Zen Buddhism burned the famous and beautiful Golden Pavilion at Kyoto to the ground. In this book Mishima asks the simple question why? And finds a complex and intriguing set of answers. He puts himself in the mind of the young monk who committed the crime, describes his life in limpid and masterful detail. The telling ranges between the poetic and the chillingly matter of fact, the tone in these later passages sometimes reminded me of Camus' The Outsider but the philosophy could not be more different. In essence the book's main character comes to believe he must destroy beauty because he cannot himself be beautiful. The book deals with one man's sickness but beyond that it explores the nature of Japanese life and the nation's reaction to defeat in the Second World War. The writing is a treat and the work is elegant and profound. In describing why the destruction of the Golden Pavilion took place Yukio Mishima has created a work as beautiful as the temple must have been.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Philosophically Challenging, 16 Aug 2008
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This review is from: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Twentieth Century Classics) (Hardcover)
A complex and endearing account of a criminal in post-war Japan, Mishima's novel plays on the trial of the crime of the real criminal and shows deeper meaning in his evident love of the nation which was to come out later in his own tumultuous life. Philosophically challenging, a must-read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The most beautiful, thought provoking book I've ever read, 24 Oct 1998
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This review is from: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Twentieth Century Classics) (Hardcover)
To put it simply, this book is by far the best book I have ever read. The authors use of language and imagery makes the book so engrossing that you can't close the covers until you reach the end. The characters life is one of the most intiguing lives that have been written about by a modern author. This is the work of a true genius. Anything Mishima writes is truly beautiful, and this is his most beautiful book.
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