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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Yukio Mishima

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1956
Originally in
Originally in Japanese
Pages
Pages 260

A stuttering young acolyte grows so obsessed with the beauty of the temple in his charge that beauty becomes his enemy, and he decides the building has to burn.

Ever since my childhood, Father had often spoken to me about the Golden Temple.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima

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