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(★)(Translated by E. Dale Saunders and Cecilia Segawa Seigle)(Titulo original : 暁の寺 [Akatsuki no Tera]／ The story of one man´s obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment,´The Temple of Dawn´ is also a powerful expression of the Japanese experience from the eve of the Second World War through the degradations of the post-war era. The novel opens in 1940 when Shigekuni Honda, a brilliant lawyer and a man of reason, arrives in Bangkok on business and obtains an audience with a Thai princess-- an encounter that radically changes his life.／ His conviction that the girl is a link in a chain of reincarnations shakes this humanist and skeptic so profoundly that he undertakes a long and arduous pilgrimage to the holy places of India, where he meets the princess once more. He returns a different man.／ ´The Temple of Dawn´ is a work illuminated by Mishima´s deep understanding of Buddhist philosophy and aesthetics-- and darkened by his apocalyptic vision of the destruction of the Japanese ethos.／ ◆Yukio Mishima was born and raised in a samurai family and died a ritual suicide in 1970-- at the height of his literary career-- after having completed his tetralogy,´The Sea of Fertility´, of which ´The Temple of Dawn´ is the third book. Three decades after his death, he remains one of the pivotal figures of modern Japanese literature.) |
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