Identité et culture
Post-War Japanese Consumer Society in Search for an Identity (A Way to Approach Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion)
Résumé (en anglais)
The paper brings into focus the tensions arising from the modernization of Japan, following the Second World War, and the changes that fragmented the Japanese way of life. The manner in which Yukio Mishima decided to treat these changes in his novel The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is central to the exploratory nature of the article. Through the inner unrest and emotions of the main character the novel speaks of the dilution of the Japanese traditional spirit when faced with Western ideals. The loss of confidence in the core values which permeates the book seems to underlie Mishima's own view of a disrupted Japanese identity (shown against a brief biographical background). Following one of the readings of the novel, which claims the Temple is a microcosm isolated from society, the article concludes that the final act in the novel is both a way of breaking with the past and an attempt to reconstruct society from the ruins of the destroyed work of art.
Mots-clés (en anglais) —
alienation · fragmentation of society · essence · fulfilment · the pursuit of ideal beautyCiter cet article
Stănuș, E.-R. (2001). Post-War Japanese Consumer Society in Search for an Identity (A Way to Approach Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion). Dialogos, 03, 94–96.
Stănuș, Estera-Romelia. “Post-War Japanese Consumer Society in Search for an Identity (A Way to Approach Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion).” Dialogos, vol. 03, 2001, pp. 94–96.
Stănuș, Estera-Romelia. 2001. “Post-War Japanese Consumer Society in Search for an Identity (A Way to Approach Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion).” Dialogos 03: 94–96.
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