01311nam a2200217Ia 4500 CTU_118782 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 1700 895.635 M678 Mishima, Yukio The temple of the golden pavilion Mishima, Yukio; translated by Ivan Morris ; introd. by Nancy Wilson Ross ; drawings by Fumi Komatsu. New York Perigee Books 1959 Account of the actual torching of a Kyoto temple by a disturbed Buddhist acolyte in 1950, the novel reflects Mishima's preoccupations with beauty and death. The narrator, Mizoguchi, a young Zen acolyte, is alienated from the world around him; born physically unattractive and frail and into bleak poverty, he stutters badly and holds himself aloof from others. His obsessive feelings for the Golden Temple vary from disappointment to reverence to identification with the structure. Mizoguchi resembles other tormented Mishima heroes who become obsessed with unattainable ideals: realizing the profound lack of beauty in his own life, he decides he must destroy the temple Temples, Buddhist Fiction.,Fiction.,Fiction. Truc Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ