The Temple of the Golden PavilionConsidered one of Mishima's masterpieces, this novel is a fictionalised version of real events the torching of a Kyoto temple by a disturbed Buddhist acolyte in 1950. This is Mishima's novel about the pressure of living an idealised life. It tells a fictionalised account of real events the lonely acolyte who destroyed a famous Kyoto temple. Mizoguchi grows up a lonely boy in a poor family, a hopeless and frustrated stutterer. Only tales of the beauty