Yukio Mishima
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.87 | 3166 Users | 215 Reviews
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| Original Title: | 曉の寺 [Akatsuki no tera] |
| ISBN: | 0099282798 (ISBN13: 9780099282792) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Sea of Fertility #3 |
| Characters: | Shigekuni Honda, Ying Chan, Shigeyuki Iinuma |
| Setting: | Bangkok(Thailand) Varanasi (Benares)(India) Kolkata(India) …more Tokyo(Japan) …less |
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Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant lawyer, is granted an audience with a young Thai princess—an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. In spite of all reason, he is convinced she is the reincarnated spirit of his friend Kiyoaki. As Honda goes to great lengths to discover for certain if his theory is correct, The Temple of Dawn becomes the story of one man’s obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment.Itemize About Books The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility #3)
| Title | : | The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility #3) |
| Author | : | Yukio Mishima |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | March 11th 2001 by Vintage Classics (first published 1970) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Literature |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 3166 Users | 215 ReviewsComment On About Books The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility #3)
I'm a huge fan of Yukio Mishima, But I gotta admit "The Sea of Fertility" has not been an easy read. Though I enjoyed "Runaway Horses", "Spring Snow" and "Temple of Dawn" seem to concentrate more on historical facts and Japanese tradition than the story of the characters themselves.. Mishima often utilizes history in order to strengthen the narrative, but this time it has worked in its disadvantage.This is the third volume of Mishimas tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility.Honda, a lawyer and good friend of the young man in the first volume, is still following the various reincarnations of his good friend. The young man died after an ill-fated romance and illness in the first volume, Spring Snow. He was reincarnated as a young idealist rebel in the second volume, Runaway Horses. Around age 20, he committed ritual suicide. In The Temple of Dawn, he is reincarnated as a young woman, a princess in
The gaze is inverted: this one's about Honda.In the first part, before the war, Honda is a Japanese tourist floating through Siam and India. The war comes and Honda spends the entirety of it studying reincarnation. Tadeshina (from vol. 1) eats a raw egg.In the second part, after the war, Honda is a voyeur, and watches everyone else have sex. 57 years old, he convinces himself he is in love with the Thai princess, and he transforms into a Humbert. For a few chapters, we, the readers, even live in
The first two volumes of the tetralogy The Sea of Fertility had utterly won me over. So my expectations were high for the temple of dawn. And the first part met them. I found Shigekuni Honda, who had abandoned the judiciary to get into law. He is now in his fifties and is starting to feel the weight of age. He is not particularly close to his wife. He has no children. At this point in life, anyone turns to the past, nostalgic. The years of youth, the Academy, the Thai princes and especially his
The third in a series of four, this book follows Shigetoshi Honda in middle age, first as he meets a Thai princess whom he believes is Kiyoaki/Isaos reincarnation and later as he becomes obsessed with her. The earlier parts of the book were rather dull, more like a textbook describing various aspects of Buddhist beliefs about reincarnation than a novel. But then I almost wished the book had stayed dry, because reading about Hondas unhappy middle age and unhealthy fascination and voyeurism was
A book only requires sequels when said sequels advance the meaning of the book, and such a series ought to convey this endeavor in both its form and function. In the third installment of his Mare Fecunditatis tetralogy, Mishima Yukio beautifully achieves such an effect, and while his reach ever so slightly exceeds his grasp, when taken with the previous two novels, The Temple of Dawn is nevertheless a triumph. In many ways, The Temple of Dawn functions as an axis for the larger tetralogy: as the
I am obsessively working my way through Mishimas' entire bibliography. Just finished The Temple of the Dawn, because it was the first of the Sea of Tranquillity books I managed to find. Starting a tetraology at book number three is not ideal, but I am still totally enchanted by his great final masterpiece. What a fantastic premise for a series of novels. There's something unforgettable about the way he writes, or is it his whole personality shining through his writing?... Whatever it is his
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