金閣寺
About this book
The son of a poor rural priest becomes an acolyte at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Mizoguchi had built up an image of ideal beauty in his mind based on this Golden Pavilion; this ideal image causes him to feel disappointed in any supposed form of beauty, even the actual physical Golden Pavilion. He comes under the influence of Kashiwagi, a fellow student with a very bitter view of life.
Subjects
- arson
- arson in fiction
- buddhist temples
- buddhist temples in fiction
- fiction
- fiction, general
- japanese psychological fiction
- japan, fiction
- near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)
- psychological fiction
- psychology
- young men
- young men in fiction