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About This Novel
The second time I took the train to the island village where I met the geisha Komako, and when I was enjoying the snowy scenery at dusk, I accidentally saw the beautiful girl Ye Zi reflected on the train window, and I fell in love with her. Subtle emotional entanglements pass through the long tunnel across the border, lingering in the snowy country. "Snow Country" is Kawabata Yasunari's highest masterpiece and one of the three novels mentioned by the Nobel Prize jury. It not only adheres to the traditional aesthetics of emptiness and silence since "The Tale of Genji", but also explores the deep and secret psychological consciousness of human nature. It also explores important topics such as fate, and uses extremely subtle and implicit poetic language, beautiful imagery and breaks the boundaries of time and space. The writing presents a profound and extensive picture of life in minimalist length, characters, and plots, allowing the original love and loneliness of human nature to reflect each other, bringing strong sensory stimulation, and at the same time, it reaches the extreme of the beauty of nothingness, purity, and sadness.
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Extreme simplicity, a symbolist's meaningful simplicity, enables his works, even if they are short, to profoundly and extensively depict all aspects of life on limited paper. For most writers in modern Japan, they are faced with the dilemma that traditional requirements and the desire to establish new literature can hardly coexist at the same time. Based on the poet's intuition, Mr. Kawabata easily transcended this contradiction and achieved a synthesis of the two. From his youth to the present, Mr. Kawabata has been pursuing the same theme: the original loneliness of man and the immortal beauty glimpsed in the flash of love, reflecting each other, just like a flash of lightning illuminating the flowers of trees in the middle of the night.
Beautiful, touching and unforgettable
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Official(2)Scraped 3d ago
Extreme simplicity, a symbolist's meaningful simplicity, enables his works, even if they are short, to profoundly and extensively depict all aspects of life on limited paper. For most writers in modern Japan, they are faced with the dilemma that traditional requirements and the desire to establish new literature can hardly coexist at the same time. Based on the poet's intuition, Mr. Kawabata easily transcended this contradiction and achieved a synthesis of the two. From his youth to the present, Mr. Kawabata has been pursuing the same theme: the original loneliness of man and the immortal beauty glimpsed in the flash of love, reflecting each other, just like a flash of lightning illuminating the flowers of trees in the middle of the night.
Beautiful, touching and unforgettable
