Snow Country (Foreign Literature Masterpiece Series)
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About This Novel
"Snow Country" contains a total of seven works by the author: "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "Snow Country", "Waltz of Flowers", "Thousand-Feathered Crane", "Mountain Sound", "Sleeping Beauty" and "Ancient Capital". These seven works range from the author's early famous work "Dancing Girl of Izu" to "Snow Country", "Thousand-Feathered Crane" and "Mountain Sound" in his creative period, to the mature works "Sleeping Beauty" and "Ancient Capital" in his later years. From short stories to novellas to full-length works, it can be said that they contain the essence of Kawabata Yasunari's life creation in one book. This selection arrangement is the only one of its kind in the market. Among them, "Snow Country" is Kawabata Yasunari's masterpiece. The novel describes a Western dance researcher named Shimamura who went to a hot spring hotel in the snow country three times and developed a subtle emotional relationship with a local geisha named Komako and the girl Ye Zi. The story finally ended with Ye Zi's accidental death. In the novel, Kawabata Yasunari skillfully applied the expression technique of stream of consciousness to describe the character's psychology delicately. The whole work is full of aestheticism and deserves to be a masterpiece in the history of Japanese literature. The translator of this book, Mr. Chen Dewen, has made brand-new revisions to the translation, ensuring that the translation is accurate and novel, which is not available in other versions of the translation.
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