Yasunari Kawabata
Author profile
born
June 14, 1899
in Osaka, Japan
died
April 16, 1972
gender
male
genre
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Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker — published 1948 — 41 editions |
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Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker — published 1952 — 26 editions |
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Beauty and Sadness
by Yasunari Kawabata, Howard Hibbett — published 1964 — 43 editions |
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House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker , Yukio Mishima — published 1961 — 43 editions |
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The Sound of the Mountain
by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker — published 1954 — 30 editions |
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The Master of Go
by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker — published 1954 — 20 editions |
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Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata, Lane Dunlop , J. Martin Holman — published 1988 — 18 editions |
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The Old Capital
by Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman — published 1962 — 23 editions |
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The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman — published 1973 — 7 editions |
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The Lake
by Yasunari Kawabata, Reiko Tsukimura — published 1955 — 12 editions |
“But even more than her diary, Shimamura was surprised at her statement that she had carefully cataloged every novel and short story she had read since she was fifteen or sixteen. The record already filled ten notebooks.
"You write down your criticisms, do you?"
"I could never do anything like that. I just write down the author and the characters and how they are related to each other. That is about all."
"But what good does it do?"
"None at all."
"A waste of effort."
"A complete waste of effort," she answered brightly, as though the admission meant little to her. She gazed solemnly at Shimamura, however.
A complete waste of effort. For some reason Shimamura wanted to stress the point. But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"You write down your criticisms, do you?"
"I could never do anything like that. I just write down the author and the characters and how they are related to each other. That is about all."
"But what good does it do?"
"None at all."
"A waste of effort."
"A complete waste of effort," she answered brightly, as though the admission meant little to her. She gazed solemnly at Shimamura, however.
A complete waste of effort. For some reason Shimamura wanted to stress the point. But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
“A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
― Yasunari Kawabata, House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
“The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
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