by Yukio Mishima · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408461876
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«El pabellón de oro» is the Japanese novel by Yukio Mishima, published by Planeta in paperback (251 pages, in Spanish).
A young stutterer with an inferiority complex enters a Kyoto temple as a monk and becomes fascinated by the beauty of the Golden Pavilion, Kinkaku-ji. His growing obsession with that perfection disturbs him and leads him to contemplate an extreme act. The novel, inspired by the real fire at the pavilion in 1950, explores beauty, obsession, and destruction.
This edition belongs to the Clásicos Contemporáneos Internacionales collection (vol. 7), with a translation by Juan Marsé. The original work was published in 1956.
For readers of Japanese literature and twentieth-century classic fiction.
Kimitake Hiraoka, known by his pen name Yukio Mishima, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, short story writer, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku. He is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language.
