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Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata,

Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

Start date: November 1, 2017

Finish date: November 30, 2017

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Aug 16, 2019 Sara rated it it was ok

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I know, I know. I am supposed to love this and appreciate its simplicity and its poetic qualities. But, I cannot tell a lie, and this just didn’t do anything for me at all. I wasn’t swept up into the language, I didn’t feel the setting, I didn’t like any of the characters, and I didn’t understand what motivated any of them. In short, it was all lost on me. The end felt abrupt and unsatisfying, which was no matter because I was glad to have it over and done.

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Jun 01, 2023 Anubha rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Not sure why am I suffering through this.

Everyone talks in cryptic circles about "I-don't-know-what". If only I could understand what the hell are they on about.
And I don't who the hell thought that referring to everyone in third person pronouns was a good idea. There will be two or more women in a scene and then Shimamura (that god-awful protagonist, if he can be called that) would just wonder about one of the woman saying "She this, that, or whatever....". Which "she" my man? Which she??

Arrrgg ...more

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Feb 10, 2021 Ileana rated it really liked it · review of another edition

«–¿No fue él el único que te despidió cuando te mandaron a Tokio? ¿No es su nombre el que figura en la primera página del primero de tus diarios? Y ahora que él llega a la última página del suyo, ¿no vas a despedirlo?
–No quiero hacerlo. No quiero verlo morir.
Shimamura no supo si esa respuesta reflejaba el más gélido o el más conmovedor de los sentimientos.»
[p. 89]

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