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| Title | : | The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility #3) |
| Author | : | Yukio Mishima |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | March 11th 2001 by Vintage Classics (first published 1970) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Literature |
Yukio Mishima
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.87 | 3166 Users | 215 Reviews
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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.Point Books In Pursuance Of The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility #3)
| 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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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 inHonda, the perpetual voyeur, gets thoroughly dissected in this third volume of The Sea of Fertility. In a way it gave me a similar feeling as, when in the first part of the first volume, Mishima's descriptions of the protagonist, Kiyokai, made me think that with each characterization of him Mishima was probably contemplating the best way to kill off this physically beautiful but otherwise loathsome figure. But whereas Kiyokai at least eventually develops some redeeming qualities, Honda, along
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 less well-structured than the first two, but has some extremely beautiful passages; and in places is dark and disturbing.You can feel Mishima beginning to come to pieces even as his art reaches a climax.The long sequences about Buddhism, Hinduism, Benares, the Goddess Kali - extraordinary; factual and yet surreal.The sequences in WWII, amongst the ruins, are also unlike anything I've read.As it moves into the postwar period, the writing returns to a restrained, naarative style; but the
This seems the weakest of the Sea of Fertility books so far, but it may be that when viewed within the context of the entire work it will make more sense. Where the first two books could stand alone, this one seems rather dependent on the rest of the tetralogy.It's also a less engaging read, both because it describes various characters' lazy descent into increasing decadence and because it contains an (unjustifiably?) extended description of various types of Hindu and Buddhist thought. Mishima's
I was slightly scared going into this one. Not only was I aware that the translator had changed, but I also heard that it was really boring, with Honda just being indolent, visiting shrines, and rambling existentially the entire time. While it's true that Honda, as a character, may not be the most exciting person in the world, and that I struggled through his touring of India (and the majority of part 1 in general) I can't stress enough how this book picked up the thematic power of the series
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
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