Chris's review
The Master of Go
by Yasunari Kawabata
Chris's review
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
Chris's review
recommended for: old people
The greatest bit in this book is when the Go master talks about "waves." He s talking about waves of the spirit, vaguely similar to trains of thought. Waves of thought might be better. The whole work is one wave after another, kind of like an ink drawing might be composed of a series of gestures. And those gestures are what the book is about. Not the Go master, or his dying, even though, of course, it s not not about those, either. To extend the metaphor, the reader is the shore, but the reader is a movable shore, made of sand that gets caught in the movement of a wave, and washes out to ride it.
