First Snow on Fuji

Kawabata Yasunari

ISBN 10: 1582431051 / ISBN 13: 9781582431055

Verlag: Perseus Books Group, 2000

pp. 248. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6632585

Inhaltsangabe:

The stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not-knowing. Kawabata lets us slide into the lives of people who have been shattered by war, loss, and longing. These stories are beautiful and melancholy, filled with Kawabata's unerring vision of human psychology. First Snow on Fuji was originally published in Japan in 1958, ten years before Kawabata received the Nobel Prize. Kawabata selected the stories for this collection himself, and the result is a stunning assembly of disparate moods and genres. This new edition is the first to be published in English.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: First Snow on Fuji
Verlag: Perseus Books Group
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New