Izu no odoriko (The Izu dancer and other stories).
Title | Izu no odoriko (The Izu dancer and other stories). PDF eBook |
Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
Publisher | |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Japanese language |
ISBN |
Izu Dancer and Other Stories
Title | Izu Dancer and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
Publisher | Tuttle Publishing |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2011-12-20 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1462902162 |
This Japanese literature collection contains four translated stories from two of Japan's most beloved and acclaimed fiction writers. The Izu Dancer, Yasunari Kawabata's first work to bring him recognition as a writer, is a novella about six Izu Peninsula travelers. As the six travelers journey together, intimacy develops and friendship overcomes class differences. Capturing the shy eroticism of adolescence, The Izu Dancer is a charming picture of the times. Yasushi Inoue's The Counterfeiter, although set in modern times, poses universal questions that transcend culture an era. Abasute and The Full Moon both explore themes of separation, loneliness, and isolation. Through the gloomy tales, Inoue's compassion shines, revealing yet another aspect of an author known for his vivid precision and economy of words. Inoue's stories are at least partially autobiographical, and Inoue's attitudes toward human destiny and fatalism are strongly influenced by his separation from his parents at an early age—yet all of his stories reveal his great compassion for his fellow human being.
The Izu Dancer and Other Stories
Title | The Izu Dancer and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Miniature books |
ISBN |
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Title | Palm-of-the-Hand Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2006-11-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374530491 |
Collection of short stories written over the entire span of Kawabata's career. These stories, he felt, represented the essence of his art and reflect his abiding interest in the miniature, the wisp of plot reduced to the essential. --Adapted from publisher description.
"So There It Is"
Title | "So There It Is" PDF eBook |
Author | Brigitte Wallinger-Schorn |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9401207011 |
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Cultural Hybridity -- Linguistic Hybridity -- Narrative Hybridity -- Formal Hybridity -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Interviews -- Index.
The Sound of the Mountain
Title | The Sound of the Mountain PDF eBook |
Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2013-02-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307833658 |
From the Nobel Prize-winning writer and acclaimed author of Snow Country comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age—about an elderly Tokyo businessman who must face the failures of his memory and the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate the end of a life. “A rich, complicated novel.... Of all modern Japanese fiction, Kawabata’s is the closest to poetry.” —The New York Times Book Review By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo businessman, is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby mountain with the sounds of death. In between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations of Shingo’s life: his trying wife; his philandering son; and his beautiful daughter-in-law, who inspires in him both pity and the stirrings of desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments, Kawabata has crafted a novel that is a powerful, serenely observed meditation on the relentless march of time. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker
The Moon in the Water
Title | The Moon in the Water PDF eBook |
Author | Gwenn Boardman Petersen |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2021-05-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0824842847 |
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