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It's a shame that the blog doesn't mention Mishima's most famous work, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (a fictionalized account of the real case of a deranged
by 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y ago
It's a shame that the blog doesn't mention Mishima's most famous work, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (a fictionalized account of the real case of a deranged monk burning down Kyoto's most famous temple), or (IMHO) his magnum opus, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, which he finished immediately before his death. Both showcase Mishima at his finest: intense, dense, obsessed with sex and death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temple_of_the_Golden_Pavilion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temple_of_the_Golden_Pavil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_of_Fertility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_of_Fertility
- ArtWomb 7y agoAgreed. Many in the West were introduced to Mishima by Paul Schrader's film, which masterfully realizes that moment of epiphany inside the temple ;) Soundtrack by Philip Glass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9rB33JnvyM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9rB33JnvyM
- leoh 7y agoI read Golden Pavilion earlier this year. What an incredibly powerful book. I scarcely can think of a novel that felt so psychologically realistic, that portrayed humiliation so clearly. Oe's "Personal Matter" and Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" deal with similar themes — the destruction that can be wrought by a sense of humiliation and alienation.