The Temple of the Golden Pavilion: A Student Review
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is a book written by Yukio Mishima. The whole work gushes with sensuous descriptions of the world without contrasted with the often enfeebling effect this external world has on the narrator’s world within. Throughout the book, the narrator’s world is encumbered by the burden of the beauty he witnesses and perceives in the world around him. Beginning with his encounter with a handsome stripling in his childhood and his first infatuation with a girl and ending in a rather fantastic climax where the narrator finally has his say, so to speak. His unremarkable physical features coupled with a debilitating stutter cause the appearance of an uncrossable chasm between the narrator and the external world.
