Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780425030561
ISBN number: 0425030563
Label: A Berkley Medallion Book
Manufacturer: A Berkley Medallion Book
Printing Date: 1960
Publishing house: A Berkley Medallion Book
Sale Popularity Level: 3290843
Studio: A Berkley Medallion Book
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It's hard to concretely describe what makes this book so profoundly insightful. It's confusing, frustrating, misleading, and vague--all qualities to make one either toss the book into the reclycing, or eat it. Yet, there reamins something mysterious and ineffably inherent which makes this book so mesmerizing.
I strongly recommend this book. An interest in Japan or background knowledge in Japan, is also a must I would say, for a more in-depth understanding.
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If you love reading about geisha, nature, Japan and relation between man and a woman you can find the book satisfying, enjoyable. I was looking for more dynamism. In certain point I just got bored by the book.
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Kawabata's novels retain timeless appeal for their lyricism, his aesthetic discourse over beauty, and his characters' inner struggles with human longing. In his classic Yukiguni (Snow Country), he paints a story of a discontent city-dweller who finds solace in a maiden's simple beauty and sporadic love for her temporary guest, which are only magnified by the harshness of a cold countryside tinged with icicles and a closed society's wrath. In what some may call the Japanese fashion, Kawabata invites the reader to imagine great depths of human emotion without using so many words.
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Great service. Condition of book was stellar and it was delivered in a very timely manner.
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As a teacher of comparative and literature (with a focus on poetry, but the novel as well), I feel confident in saying that Kawabata is a writer of such brilliant painterly effects (by which I mean I visual and emotional evocations), that I rank him at the very top of twentieth century writers in the world.
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