THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION BY YUKIO MISHIMA (JAPANESE NOVEL)

KINKAKUJI YUKIO MISHIMA (THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION)\nTHIS IS A JAPANESE NOVEL. WRITTEN IN JAPANESE.\n\n\""Kinkakuji\"" is a full-length novel by Yukio Mishima. It is not only Mishima's most successful masterpiece, but is also considered one of the masterpieces of modern Japanese literature, and is highly acclaimed overseas. This is a first-person confessional story about how a learned monk, obsessed with the beauty of Kinkakuji Temple, set it on fire.Set during and after the war, it explores the fate of a severe stutterer and his life. The ambivalent psychology and ideas of the curse and obsession with the beauty of the Golden Temple that stands in the way are spelled out in a hard and precise writing style. Writers from the mainstream and left-wing circles of the old literary world, who had previously given Mishima a skeptical and negative opinion, also praised him highly and Mishima was recognized as one of the leading authors of Japanese literature, both in name and ret