"Sound of the Mountain" depicts the story of Shingo's family, his son's affair, his daughter's marriage failure, the sorrow of old age, and Shingo's subtle attachment to his beautiful daughter-in-law Kikuko... Kawabata Yasunari uses his usual aesthetic style to delicately and calmly condense the post-war world, style and reality into the sorrow and melancholy of Japan since ancient times, demonstrating the skill of overlapping images of poetry and drama. This is a novel full of the face of death, and his "premonition of approaching death is more terrifying than death itself", venting his extremely lonely and desolate mood. Death and loneliness are the psychological portrayal of the elderly Kawabata, and this sad feeling always runs through his later novels.
Reader comments
"Mountain Sound" reminds me of my grandfather. Like Shingo, he faces various changes and helplessness in life when he reaches old age. This book truly shows the inner world of the elderly and gave me a deeper understanding of their loneliness and sorrow. Kawabata Yasunari's writing is delicate and beautiful, like a sad poem, which makes people immersed in it.
"Mountain Sound" reminds me of my grandfather. Like Shingo, he faces various changes and helplessness in life when he reaches old age. This book truly shows the inner world of the elderly and gave me a deeper understanding of their loneliness and sorrow. Kawabata Yasunari's writing is delicate and beautiful, like a sad poem, which makes people immersed in it.