The Milky Way Falls into the Body: Kawabata Yasunari (ten Lectures by Japanese Literary Masters 04)
by Yang Zhao
About This Novel
The standard-bearers of literature in the 20th century were also laggards of their respective eras. "Classic Reader" Yang Zhao's ten-lecture series on Japanese literary masters: Using literature, listen to their struggles and answers. Yang Zhao, the "classic reader" of this volume × Yasunari Kawabata, the "reconstructor of Japanese beauty": What we have is not this life, but a few accidental moments. In this world, while looking at the flowers, you are walking towards hell. Kawabata Yasunari, who grew up at the funeral of his relatives when he was young, was hit by the double blow of the country's defeat and the death of his best friend. He early felt the "futility" of life: How could he continue to survive for the rest of his life? Delicate and sensitive, he found a way in novels: novels can condense time - it is both an instant and an eternity fixed by condensation. There is a huge conflict and tension between the two, bursting out an indescribable beauty. In the post-war atmosphere of advocating the West, the multi-layered circulation of people's hearts, human kindness, strong time perception and social care perspective in Kawabata Yasunari's works not only revitalized Japan's own civilizational value, but also allowed it to be seen and valued by the world again. He was determined to preserve the beauty of Japan while preserving the country and find a reason for its continued existence amidst the ruins of defeat.
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