Purple Picture Classic Library: Kawabata Yasunari·beauty and Sorrow
About This Novel
Oki fell in love with a girl Neko, but it ended with the girl giving birth prematurely, dying of a baby girl, and having a mental breakdown. Omu wrote this experience into a best-selling book, where suppressed feelings were rekindled, spreading unpredictable fires in new relationships, and eventually led to a conflagration. Different from the simple content of the early works, "Beauty and Sorrow" expresses various clues and emotions such as first love, unethical love, same-sex love, teenage revenge, etc. It expresses deeper psychology and the deeper secrets of human nature, and reflects Kawabata's more advanced narrative skills in the late period. It is more mature, has more breadth and depth, and is more readable. It is praised by Mishima Yukio as the "methodological work" that best reflects Kawabata's writing ability. Reading it can gain a fuller feeling and a more complete understanding of Kawabata Yasunari.
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