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title: "The Temple of Dawn"
brand: "yukio mishima"
price: "471 DH"
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reviews_count: 10
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# The Temple of Dawn

**Brand:** yukio mishima
**Price:** 471 DH
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- **What is this?** The Temple of Dawn by yukio mishima
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The Temple of Dawn

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## Customer Reviews

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    Good book, horrible translation
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2020*

I got the next book in the newly-printed vintage series with the gorgeous covers. Although not indicated, that book is translated by someone other than Michael Gallagher, the one who did Spring Snow and Runaway Horses in the vintage series. I consider this a bait-and-switch. I was enjoying the first two books, translated by Michael Gallagher, then I get stuck with this without warning? I'm not going to go into detail, but I get the feeling that these translators are trying really really hard to write poetically (at the expense of the reader). This is the sentence that put m over the edge: "He glimpsed something red outside the car window, and looking out, saw a river and among the coconuts with trunks of flaming red bordering the road baboonlike, the smokey scarlet of poinciana along the bank." They prefer shoving adjectives down your throat to calling a tree a tree. The worst of it is that kind of stuff interseprsed with bland description. So, if you can, find another translator.

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    "How alike were the voices of pleasure and death!  When one is summoned, all work at once becomes unimportant."
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2014*

In this third novel of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy by Yukio Mishima, main character Shigekuni Honda is forty-six years old.  It is now 1940, and Honda has matured into a successful lawyer and judge in the years since 1912 - 1914, when he was first introduced as the schoolboy friend of Kiyoake Matsugae, the son of a samurai family.  Kiyoake, however, died at a young age in Spring Snow, and his death has haunted Honda for the rest of his life.  Runaway Horses, the second novel of the tetralogy, takes place during the economic crisis in Japan of 1932 - 1933. In that novel, Honda sees Isao Iinuma, the nineteen-year-old son of Kiyoaki's former tutor, as the physical reincarnation of Kiyoaki.The Temple of Dawn opens in 1940, immediately preceding World War II.  Honda is still trying to develop his own beliefs about life, death, love, the transmigration of souls, and reincarnation.  War is imminent now, as Japan, Germany, and Italy have signed a treaty against the Americans.  On a business trip to Bangkok, where he also hopes to meet Prince Pattanadid and Prince Krisada, former school friends from his youth, he discovers that the Thai royal family has gone to Switzerland.  Only a "mad princess," age seven, lives in the palace - a virtual prisoner - claiming publicly that "I'm not really a Siamese princess.  I'm the reincarnation of a Japanese, and my real home is in Japan."Detailed discussions of Buddhism and its offshoots pervade the beginning of the novel and continue as Honda decides to travel to Calcutta, Benares, and the Ajanta caves in India, where he continues his exploration of reality, death, love, transmutation, and reincarnation.Part II, takes place twelve years later, in 1952, on Honda's fifty-seventh birthday and continues to 1967.  Honda, now living in a house facing the magnificence of Mount Fuji, is retired, still pursuing his philosophical inquiries.  The relationship of sex and death become more personal as Honda becomes infatuated with a seventeen-year-old teenager whom he now believes is the next incarnation of Kiyoaki and Isao. Ying Chan, also known as Princess Chantrapa II, is the "mad princess" he met formerly in Bangkok when she was only seven.  Now seventeen, she is studying in Japan.Set as it is in the period before and after World War II, but completely skipping over the war itself, the novel has more detailed philosophical analysis than it does narrative action, and some readers of Spring Snow and Runaway Horses may weary of these detailed philosophical discussions.  Mishima himself seems to be trying to work out his own ideals and reconcile himself to a different life in postwar Japan.  A believer in the old samurai traditions, Mishima despaired of the growing western influence and he never forgave the emperor for denying his divinity when he signed the treaty ending the war.  Just after Mishima finished the final novel in this "Sea of Fertility" tetralogy, the Decay of the Angel on November 25, 1970, he disemboweled himself in a gruesome ritual suicide--seppuku--committed in the presence of four members of his private army.  He was then beheaded, in accordance with ritual.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Magnificent
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2021*

Rereading this volume 3 of Mishima’s masterpiece after 35 years in this fantastic translation of the highest literary quality feels like finally reading Mishima’s writing itself, not just its shadow in another language.One of the best books I have read the Sea of Fertility is comparable in scope only to Proust’s ‘Recherche.’

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