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The Secret Of The Golden Pavilion
Publication details: New York Carolyn Keene Description: Extent- vii, 184 pages: illustrations ; 20cmISBN:- 044809536X
- he protagonist Mizoguchi's obsessive, destructive, and nihilistic search for beauty and meaning in a post-war, fragmented world
- explores a deeply fractured moral life, centering on themes of obsessive beauty, nihilism, hypocrisy, and the destruction of innocence. The novel, based on the 1950 arson of Kyoto's Kinkaku-ji by a young monk, Mizoguchi, portrays a protagonist who is isolated, physically frail, and deeply disturbed by the stark contrast between the ideal, eternal beauty of the temple and the ugliness of the mundane world
- Fic. K26s 1987
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