Description |
1 online resource (xix, 262 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Unesco collection of representative works. Japanese series
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Tuttle classics
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Summary |
Mizoguchi has been mentally troubled since he witnessed his mother's infidelity in the presence of his dying father. Mizoguchi feels utterly abandoned and alone until he becomes a pdest at Kinka-kuji, a famous Buddhist temple in Kyoto. Failing in his quest to find the warmth of human companionship in the temple, the young man, tormented by the temple's exquisite beauty, decides to destroy himself and all he loves. He feels he cannot live in peace as long as the temple exists. Mizoguchi, like many other troubled Mishima heroes, becomes obsessed with unattainable ideals |
Notes |
Orig. published in Japanese as Kinkakuji |
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"First Tuttle edition, 1956." |
Subject |
Young men -- Fiction
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Psychological fiction, Japanese -- Japan -- Kyoto
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Buddhist temples -- Fiction
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Arson -- Fiction
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Form |
Electronic book
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Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Author |
Morris, Ivan
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ISBN |
9781462902767 |
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1462902766 |
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