The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Softcover

Mishima, Yukio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0399504885 ISBN 13: 9780399504884

Publisher: Tarcherperigree, 1980

Synopsis

A young Buddhist priest's obsession with religion causes him to destroy everything of importance in his life

About this title

Review:

"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

"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

About the Author:

Yukio Mishima was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1925. One of Japan s most acclaimed and well-known authors of the 20th century, his works include The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea, The Sound of Waves, and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy (Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn, and The Decay of the Angel). He died in 1970.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Tarcherperigree
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0399504885
• ISBN 13: 9780399504884
• Binding: Paperback