false 83024 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 83024 9 80158 1974 The Lake total:93|5:29|4:30|3:26|2:4|1:4| 93 355 136 11 8550 3.88 3701 464 47331150 1248986 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.83 80 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 5 0 false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 20:01:06 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 20:52:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 72167278 1990849 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 5 0 false Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 16:59:36 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 11:15:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 58290449 2189610 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 1 0 false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 09:01:48 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 21:38:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 37334293 1551688 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 5 0 false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 10 10:38:50 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 12 15:53:07 -0800 2009 The Old Capital. I learned about the meditative quality of the game Go in The Master of Go. And in A Thousand Cranes Kawabata taught me about the tea ceremony and love. Now, after finishing The Lake I posses...more...]]> 31174368 92472 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 2 0 false Wed Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 16:01:15 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 20:51:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 19837974 863443 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 1 0 false Wed Apr 09 19:38:53 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 19:42:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1509691 77345 1040609 0870113658 9780870113659 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180444993m/1040609.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180444993s/1040609.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1040609.The_Lake 3.70 10 In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.

]]> 1974 2 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue May 29 06:23:26 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 06:23:33 -0700 2007 tormented, and crazy male as the main character. This book seems a
little more Freudian than Pan. At times I felt like I was reading a
literate rendition of Japanese anime, complete with confusing dramatic
p...more...]]> 1394215 71672 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1973 Wed May 23 14:23:34 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 19:57:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3322075 15048 1040609 0870113658 9780870113659 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180444993m/1040609.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180444993s/1040609.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1040609.The_Lake 3.82 93 In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.

]]> 1974 3 0 false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Jul 20 11:41:30 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 20 11:44:05 -0700 2007 9358173 251227 1798272 0870112163 9780870112164 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1798272.The_Lake 5.00 1 In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.

]]> 1974 5 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 11:18:12 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 11:18:12 -0800 2007 7266812 284354 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 3 0 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 13:16:36 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 13:17:23 -0700 2007 80941972 2869559 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 0 0 false Mon Dec 14 02:33:40 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 02:33:42 -0800 2009 80257629 852500 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 4 0 false Mon Dec 07 22:01:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 22:01:00 -0800 2009 79682073 3002737 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 0 0 false Wed Dec 02 15:33:24 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 21:23:48 -0800 2009 77450585 815767 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 0 0 false Wed Nov 11 11:03:10 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 11:03:10 -0800 2009 77413136 2590622 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 5 0 false Wed Nov 11 02:41:07 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 02:41:07 -0800 2009 75076153 2257313 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 5 0 false Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Mon Oct 19 18:43:25 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 18:43:25 -0700 2009 74748073 623814 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 0 0 false Fri Oct 16 12:37:03 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 12:37:03 -0700 2009 73759991 2417811 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 0 0 false Wed Oct 07 12:02:31 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 12:02:35 -0700 2009 73711991 2802217 83024 4770030010 9784770030016 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521m/83024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171035521s/83024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83024.The_Lake 3.82 93 and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the
durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break
suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 1974 0 0 false Tue Oct 06 23:49:13 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 23:49:13 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=83024