金阁寺 by Yukio Mishima
A sensitive, stammering young acolyte at a famed Zen temple becomes consumed by an obsession with the building’s immaculate beauty, a fixation intensified by social isolation, humiliation, and the manipulations of those around him; his inner contradictions—reverence for beauty, hatred of his own inadequacy, and a yearning for symbolic control—drive a psychological unraveling that culminates in a deliberate act of arson, forcing a tragic confrontation with the paradoxes of aesthetic perfection, guilt, and postwar identity.
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- Published
- 1956
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 232
- Original Language
- Japanese
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- Alternate Titles
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- Kinkaku-ji
- Kinkakuji
- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
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