Beauty and Eroticism in Mishima’s The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Sabah Carrim

Yayın yılı:

2014

Yayıncı:

BRILL

Yukio Mishima’s views on beauty are somewhat politically unconventional. Beauty seems to be employed as a means to further the greater spiritual drives of life—such as the desire to regain a lost wholeness. Thus through what is arguably his magnum opus, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Mishima explores this theme closely. In the novel, Mizoguchi, the protagonist is envious of the beauty of the Golden Temple and sets it on fire as the culminating point of the narrative. I argue that the closest exposition of his philosophy resides in the works of Georges Bataille, specifically his conception of Eroticism. Beauty is not an end in itself but a mechanism of overcoming.

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