Word: mishima
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...Japanese are now concentrating on sex and sensibility in their novels (Junichiro Tanizaki's The Key, Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country, Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion), and the emotions of a single person interest them more than the entire Pacific war. "We are grass eaters here," says one Japanese writer good-humoredly. "So meaty a subject as war guilt is physically incompatible with...
...Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. A masterly exercise in reason-why literature-in this case, why a demented Buddhist priest, loathing beauty, burns down a magnificent 14th century Zen temple...
...Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. A psychotic Buddhist priest, despising his ugly self and loathing beauty, burns down a magnificent 14th century temple-and a master of literary indirection tells...
...Temple of the Golden Pavilon, by Yukio Mishima. Beauty's dark power to paralyze the will is merely one among many meanings in this sensuously symbolic novel about the burning of a 14th century Buddhist temple...
...Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. Beauty's dark power to paralyze the will is merely one among many meanings in this sensuously symbolic novel about the burning of a 14th century Buddhist temple...