Mountain Sound
by G
About This Novel
The protagonist, the sixty-two-year-old Ogata Shingo, has a son and a daughter. The son is mentally disabled due to participating in the "World War II", and the daughter is separated from her son-in-law and takes the child back to live with her parents. Recently, Shingo has felt strongly about his aging. He thought of his former lover, his wife Yasuko's deceased sister, the "eternally holy girl" in his mind, and saw the image of his former lover in his daughter-in-law Kikuko. After his son Shuichi had his lover Kinuko, he completely ignored Kikuko's existence. Shingo had sympathy and pity for Kikuko beyond what he should have as a father-in-law, but he still could not change Kikuko's situation. The life of Shingo's family is considered to be the epitome of ordinary family life in Japanese society at that time, embodying the consistent themes in Kawabata Yasunari's literary creation - death and dreams.
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