Kinkaku-Ji

by Yukio Mishima

The author uses Kinkaku-ji as the topic of novel. Mizoguchi is a young boy who was very shy and has a stutter problem. Kinkaku has became the ideology of beauty for him. He thinks about it and draws about it all the time. However, His life changed dramatically after college as he met a new friend. What will happen to him?

Hardcover

Published October 1, 2018

About the author

Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)—a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.

Reviews

[Mimily · Rating 3 out of 5]

作者构建了一种美学，关于恶与美之间细若游丝的黏连，可以充分想象为什么三岛由纪夫这么受广泛的“文艺青年”喜欢，它很特别，一旦进入并接受这个美学设定，便会大受震撼。但我得承认，虽然一些段落很看到作者的观察功力，但促使我读下去的其实是不断大呼“好变态啊”的猎奇心理。全世界大概只有日本作家会写这样的故事，但我不喜欢，也不觉得这是典型的文学写作的好。说起来也不知道是翻译的问题还是语言本身的问题，日韩作家的汉译本，语感都不是很有文学性。

[Winnie Marth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Malicious thoughts in slow motions. I can't think of a second writer who can do such a good job.

[Nereid · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the dark aesthetic throughout this novel, but from the middle part of this book, the main character really annoys me because he keeps whining!

[XXX · Rating 5 out of 5]

给作者下跪，给译者下跪，写得太好太诚实了，有一种扭曲又迷人的美！