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Incredibly detailed description of what it is like to have a neurotic personality, and how it manifests in your social life. Also just a wonderful depiction of life in a Buddhist temple at the end of WW2 in Japan, something I knew absolutely nothing going into this. (  ) AndrewFink | Jan 19, 2023 |  Incredibly detailed description of what it is like to have a neurotic personality, and how it manifests in your social life. Also just a wonderful depiction of life in a Buddhist temple at the end of WW2 in Japan, something I knew absolutely nothing going into this. ( ) AndrewFink | Jan 19, 2023 | Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "Japanese monks and a big fire that destroyed their temple in Kyoto. Fictionalized account of actual historical events. Consider reading other books by author." At this point in time (Sept, 2022) I have zero memory of this book. (  ) MGADMJK | Sep 16, 2022 | Mishima inspires to describe his writing as something other than words. It's rich and clean and kind of uncomfortable, like freezing water that is deeper than it looks. There is relatively little plot to this book, with Mishima spending most of his time inside the mind of the main character, whose name is only mentioned twice. I enjoyed the expose of a troubled psyche, but it does make for a rather slow moving novel. The story was enhanced for me as I visited the Golden Pavilion the week I was reading this. I think if you're interested in Mishima, maybe start with the only other book of his I've read -- The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. It has similar themes. (  ) invisiblecityzen | Mar 13, 2022 | Mishima inspires to describe his writing as something other than words. It's rich and clean and kind of uncomfortable, like freezing water that is deeper than it looks. There is relatively little plot to this book, with Mishima spending most of his time inside the mind of the main character, whose name is only mentioned twice. I enjoyed the expose of a troubled psyche, but it does make for a rather slow moving novel. The story was enhanced for me as I visited the Golden Pavilion the week I was reading this. I think if you're interested in Mishima, maybe start with the only other book of his I've read -- The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. It has similar themes. ( ) invisiblecityzen | Mar 13, 2022 |
"An amazing literary feat in its minute delineation of a neurotic personality." "Beautifully translated... Mishima re-erects Kyoto, plain and mountain, monastery, temple, town, as Victor Hugo made Paris out of Notre Dame."  "One of the few genuinely surprising, subtle, complex and profound novels of ideas to have appeared since Man’s Fate" […] "Mishima has fashioned a wildly original, paradoxical series of clashing meditations and actions"  In July, 1950, art lovers were shocked to hear that the Kinkakuji--the Temple of the Golden Pavilion--in Kyoto had been deliberately burned by a crazed young monk. At his trial, this ugly, stammering priest said that his hatred of all beauty had driven him to destroy the six-century-old building. He expressed no regrets. From this incident and other details of his life an engrossing novel has been written by Yukio Mishima. Belongs to Publisher SeriesIs contained inHas the adaptation
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. 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. No library descriptions found. |
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