In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion , celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man’s obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully.

Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto’s famous Golden Temple. While an acolyte at the temple, he fixates on the structure’s aesthetic perfection and it becomes his one and only object of desire. But as Mizoguchi begins to perceive flaws in the temple, he determines that the only true path to beauty lies in an act of horrific violence.

Based on a real incident that occurred in 1950, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion brilliantly portrays the passions and agonies of a young man in postwar Japan, bringing to the subject the erotic imagination and instinct for the dramatic moment that marked Mishima as one of the towering makers of modern fiction. With an introduction by Donald Keene; Translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris.

《假面的告白》是三岛由纪夫的第一部长篇小说，写于作者二十四岁时。本书是作者正式迈入长篇小说文学殿堂的自画像与宣言书。书名“假面的告白”，意思是“戴着假面具，诉说心里话”。作者借助自己的家庭出身、人生经历为素材，涉及的事项大多为作家自己，当然也经过了作者的艺术加工，强调虚构，表达真实。作品中“我”的身上，时时闪现着作者的身影，堪称三岛由纪夫的半自传性长篇小说。