by Yukio Mishima · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070366491
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«Le Pavillon d'or» is the novel by Yukio Mishima, published by Gallimard in paperback (375 pages, in French).
The young Buddhist monk Mizoguchi, a stutterer tormented by his ugliness, becomes obsessed with the beauty of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. His veneration of that absolute beauty drives him toward the idea of destroying it to free himself. Mishima draws on the real fire at Kinkaku-ji in 1950 and reflects on beauty, destruction and salvation.
The novel was originally published in 1956 under the title «金閣寺» (Kinkaku-ji) and was awarded the Yomiuri Prize. It belongs to the Folio collection.
A work for those interested in twentieth-century Japanese literature and in the conflicts between beauty and destruction.
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.
