The Temple of the Golden Pavilion: Introduction by Donald Keene (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) - Hardcover

Mishima, Yukio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679433155 ISBN 13: 9780679433156

Publisher: Everyman's Library USA, 1995

Synopsis

A hopeless stutterer, taunted by his schoolmates, Mizoguchi feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. But he quickly becomes obsessed with the temple's beauty, and cannot live in peace as long as it exists.

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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

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library USA
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679433155
• ISBN 13: 9780679433156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304