The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Novel by Yukio Mishima

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✅ Language - English

✅ Dimensions - 5.5 x 8.26 inches

✅ Pages Amount 257

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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is a psychological novel that follows Mizoguchi, a lonely Zen acolyte with a severe stutter who becomes dangerously obsessed with the absolute architectural beauty of Kyoto's Kinkaku-ji temple. Tormented by his own perceived ugliness, isolation, and a growing sense of inadequacy, he views the timeless pavilion as a crushing psychological barrier that detaches him from real life, sexuality, and human connection. Influenced by his cynical, disabled friend Kashiwagi, Mizoguchi embraces a nihilistic philosophy where destruction becomes the only way to conquer beauty. Ultimately, driven by the belief that he can only free his mind and truly exist by erasing the object of his torment, he sets fire to the sacred structure in an act of liberating devastation.