Sarah's review
Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
Sarah's review
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Sarah's review
rating:
i was a bit disappointed with this, especially if it's one of kawabata's more celebrated (or just famous?) books, or one of his break-out books, and since he is a nobel winner. his prose is lovely, but i felt like i was watching a very tactful and well-mannered movie from the 50s where they divert your attention to nice scenery shots or where they only show the actors' legs when they're kissing. the narrative skipped forward so much that it was hard to stay oriented, and the aforementioned allusions were so polite that it was difficult to get a sense that anything significant was going on, in plot or in emotion, except for some snowflakes whirling around. and it was hard to get a sense of the characters and their motivation. either that or my sense of subtlety has become too large and american and i need to rethink these things.
