5/30/2023 0 Comments Snow country japanese novel![]() His father, Kawabata Eikichi, a prominent physician, died of tuberculosis when Kawabata was just two years old. ![]() Kawabata was born June 14, 1899, in Osaka, Japan, into a prosperous and cultured family. His best-known novel, Yukiguni (1948 Snow Country), is the story of a middle-aged esthete, Shimamura, and a forlorn country geisha, Komako, set in an isolated hot spring resort west of the central mountain range, where the winters are long, dark and silent. During his life, Kawabata wrote more than one hundred “palm of the hand” stories, usually two or three pages long, which he said expressed the essence of his art. The formlessness which characterizes much of his writing reflects the fluid composition of renga, Japanese linked verse of the fifteenth century. Kawabata combined ancient Japanese literary tradition with modern language in his lyrical works. ![]()
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