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Izu Dancer

Izu Dancer

General Fiction

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

130K0

The novel describes the author in the autumn of 1918, when he was in his second grade at a high school in Tokyo. Because he was tired of boarding life and wanted to get rid of the lingering mental depression, he traveled alone to the Izu Peninsula. On the way, I met a group of Jianghu artists and walked together from Amagi Ridge, Yushima, and Yuno all the way to Shimoda. The artists are kind-hearted and have simple emotions, especially the innocent and enthusiastic dancer, which makes the protagonist appreciate the warmth of human kindness and sprouts a ray of tenderness in his heart. The dancer's compliment that he was "a good man" made him feel "indescribable gratitude". Finally, he left and let his tears flow down on the boat. His mind seemed to be a stream of clear water, trickling down. In the end, there was nothing but sweet pleasure.

Kawabata Yasunari's Best Collection: Snow Country

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

124K0

"Snow Country" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Kawabata Yasunari. The book includes the novella "Snow Country", a collection of letters "Letter to Parents" and the short story "Bonfire". "Snow Country" is Kawabata Yasunari's most famous work. The beautiful description of imagery is integrated into the expression of the characters' emotions, with a touch of sadness, which expresses Kawabata Yasunari's thoughts on material sorrow, and reflects his superb writing skills with oriental characteristics, delicate and keen observation, and ingenious and magical story weaving ability. "Letter to My Parents" is a collection of five letters written by Kawabata Yasunari to his deceased parents. "Bonfire" uses delicate brushstrokes to depict the psychological activities of "I" (Ajun) in the process of proposing to Michiko accompanied by his friend Asakura.

Tokyoites

Tokyoites

General Fiction

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

402K6.5

Following "Snow Country", this is a super-long masterpiece from the golden age of creation, confronting the incompleteness and destruction of beauty, the difficulty of survival, and human desire and loneliness. People living in Tokyo have no hometown. Keiko, who lost her husband, met Shunzo Shimaki and his daughter Yumiko. Junzo's wife has been recuperating away from home for many years due to illness, so Keiko and Junzo formed a strange family. Keiko's business is getting better and better. She not only supports the family's expenses, but also bears the medical expenses of Junsan's wife. However, Junsan's company is on the verge of bankruptcy. One day, Junzo suddenly left without saying goodbye and disappeared. In a home that was reorganized like two broken mirrors, Keiko, together with her biological children and adopted daughter, experienced the world's human kindness and kindness in the joys and sorrows of separation, telling a Tokyo story full of love and loneliness.

Ancient Capital (translation Classic)

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

89K0

Kawabata Yasunari's Nobel Prize-winning work is the pinnacle of Eastern aesthetics; a prose poem written to Kyoto, an encounter that began with parting; a poem about the scenery of the thousand-year-old ancient capital, and the fate of a pair of sisters. In the ancient capital of Kyoto, Chieko was adopted by a brocade merchant and became a beautiful girl. On the night of the Garden Festival, she met Miao Zi, a girl from a mountain village, and was surprised to learn that the two were twin sisters. They miss each other, but they cannot recognize each other because of their different identities. The sisters' faint sadness is woven into the beautiful scenery of Kyoto's four seasons. At the end of the story, Chieko and Miaozi meet again in a grand festival. At the festival, the conflict between Kyoto's traditional culture and modern life was vividly displayed. Chieko felt bound by family and tradition in the festival, while Miaozi saw freedom and hope in the hustle and bustle. In the end, the two sisters said goodbye amidst the fireworks of the festival, each heading towards a different future.

Dancer of Izu

Dancer of Izu

General Fiction

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

118K0

In my lonely youth, you were half of the poem in my heart. "The Dancing Girl of Izu" is a poignant, romantic and sad novel written by Kawabata Yasunari based on his personal experience. The work describes a high school student "I" who traveled to Izu alone and met an innocent dancing girl, and then developed a beautiful and regretful innocent love. By describing the beautiful scenery of the green mountains and green waters of Izu, the author highlights the pure love between the two people, combines the beautiful scenery with a touch of sadness, and shows a world of sad beauty and a fresh and elegant lament through the beauty of nature, women, nirvana and mystery. The accidental intersection of lives has gently wiped away the loneliness and sentimentality of youth for us.

Kawabata Yasunari Must-read Set (7 Volumes in Total)

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

609K0

Among the world's master writers, Kawabata Yasunari is famous for the beauty of expression. Beauty is his creed. The beauty of nature, tradition, art and female beauty are its aesthetic sources and objects of expression. The seemingly otherworldly and beautiful brushwork penetrates into the darkness of human nature that has never been seen before. This set collects all the must-read works of Kawabata Yasunari (7 volumes), including the three masterpieces "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital" and "Thousand-Feathered Crane" that were highlighted by the Nobel Prize in Literature jury, the famous work "The Dancing Girl of Izu" and the "Twin Flowers of Beautiful First Love" "Flower Waltz", the masterpiece "Beauty and Sorrow" collected in his later years, and "Flowers Are Not Sleeping", a collection of handed down essays in which Kawabata directly explains his aesthetic concepts and methods, will allow you to enter Kawabata Yasunari's heart-wrenchingly delicate and breathtakingly beautiful literary world.

Translation Series of Kawabata Yasunari's Famous Works: Wisteria and Strawberry

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

105K0

"Wisteria and Strawberry" is Kawabata Yasunari's "collection of palm novels". The exquisite and charming style embodies the spirit of Kawabata Yasunari's poetry when he was young. It includes famous palm novels such as "Lily", "Dancing Shoes" and "Umbrella". In the evening of late spring and early summer, the wife and husband were talking about a wonderful thing by the window. The sister of an old friend had an inexplicable attachment to her because of her sister's friendship with this lady. This reminded my wife of the lost girl time under the wisteria trees in Nara... The swaying wisteria flowers by the quiet lake were like a hazy dream.

Flowers Are Not Sleeping

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

94K0

At four o'clock in the morning, the begonia flower is still awake. It is in full bloom, with a sad beauty! "Flowers Never Sleep" was written by Kawabata Yasunari after he woke up at four o'clock in the morning. At that time, he found that begonia flowers were still blooming at night, which triggered a series of philosophical thoughts on beauty. He carved a flower and a world with his warm writing style; he used his subtle inner feelings to develop a word and a wisdom; he used his flowing thoughts to spread out an article and a life. The short text condenses the author's deep thinking on nature, life and beauty. The writing style of "Flowers Never Sleep" is subtle, the style is elegant, the thoughts are profound, and the charm is profound. The whole article laments the beauty of mourning, the principles of meditation, and the charm of philosophy, which contains the author's infinite reverie and passionate pursuit of beauty. Since a flower is beautiful, I want to live. Just because life is short and fragile, we must work harder to bloom!

Ancient Capital

Ancient Capital

General Fiction

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

143K0

The classic work of Nobel Prize winner Kawabata Yasunari is highly recommended by Yu Hua. "Ancient Capital" includes Kawabata Yasunari's classic novels "Ancient Capital" and "Celebrity". In the ancient capital of Kyoto, Chieko was adopted by a brocade merchant and became a beautiful girl. On the night of the Garden Festival, she met Miao Zi, a girl from a mountain village, and was surprised to learn that the two were twin sisters. They miss each other, but they cannot recognize each other because of their different identities. The two sisters' faint sadness is woven into the beautiful scenery of Kyoto's four seasons... Before Go master Hideya retired, he decided to bid farewell to the chess world. Between the old and sick celebrities and the new young chess king, the old chess art and the new rules of victory and defeat, an epoch-making chess match kicked off with worldwide attention...

Kawabata Yasunari's Best Collection: Ancient Capital

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

135K0

This book "Ancient Capital" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Kawabata Yasunari. It consists of three stories: "Ancient Capital", "The Ballad of Wings" and "The Flower of Competition". "Ancient Capital" tells the story of the friendship and misunderstanding between twin sisters Chieko and Naeko who grew up in different families; "The Ballad of Wings" describes the emotional initiation process of the girl Lingzi in adolescence; "Blooming Flower" describes the complicated love-hate relationship between three women and Shimura. This book is one of Kawabata Yasunari's masterpieces and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Snow Country

Snow Country

General Fiction

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

117K7.5

This book includes the Nobel Prize-winning work "Snow Country" and Kawabata Yasunari's classic "The Lake". The story begins with a train heading to the snowy country. The dusk scene passing by outside the window reflects the girl's eyes reflected on the glass, making it confusing. Shimamura, a dance art researcher, went to the snow-covered mountain village of the Northland three times. He fell into love entanglement with the local geisha Komako and the girl Ye Zi who met by chance. Love and futility... "Snow Country" is Kawabata Yasunari's masterpiece. The beauty of nothingness, cleanliness and sadness depicted in it reaches the extreme\u002F, making people heart-thumping and melancholy.

Collection of Kawabata Yasunari's Famous Works: Collector's Edition (set of Three Volumes)

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

284K0

"Dancing Girl of Izu" tells the story of a boy from Tokyo who encounters a group of touring entertainers and is attracted by the innocent and charming little dancer Kaoruko, who gradually becomes attached to the boy. As the highest masterpiece of Kawabata Yasunari, "The Dancing Girl of Izu" fully describes the sweetness, sourness and meaningfulness of first love. "Snow Country" tells the story of Shimamura and geisha Komako getting acquainted in the Snow Country. After a brief relationship, the lonely Komako began to look forward to the annual date with Shimamura. On the third train trip to Snow Country for an appointment, Shimamura met a woman named Ye Zi and was deeply attracted by the beautiful reflection of Ye Zi on the car window. "A Thousand Cranes" tells the story of the fourth year after his father's death. The protagonist Kikuji encounters his father's former lover Mrs. Ota at a tea party. Mrs. Ota misses her old lover and actually empathizes with her son Kikuji. Kikuji also accepts this love that violates morality... The novel narrates the conflict between love and morality in a very beautiful style and depicts a story of abnormal love involving two generations.

Snow Country (selected Works of Kawabata Yasunari)

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

235K0

This book contains four of Kawabata Yasunari's most famous masterpieces, "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital", "Thousand-Feathered Crane" and "Hachidori". Kawabata Yasunari is the first Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. As a national professional publishing house for domestic literary publishing, People's Literature Publishing House publishes Kawabata Yasunari's anthology, which also reflects the professionalism of literature. Kawabata Yasunari has many works, so the selection and collection of texts are very important. The "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital" and "Thousand-Feathered Crane" selected in this book are not only Kawabata's representative works, but also spanned the author's prime period of creation in terms of creation time. From them, we can see the essence and peak of the author's creation. "Hachidori" is in the same vein as "Thousand-Feathered Crane" in terms of content, allowing readers to have a more comprehensive understanding of Kawabata Yasunari's works. This kind of arrangement is not found in other anthologies. The translator of this book, Chen Dewen, is a senior Japanese literature translator who graduated from Peking University's Japanese major in the 1960s. He began translating Japanese classic literature as early as the early 1980s. His years of experience in Japanese literature translation have given him not only in-depth research on Kawabata Yasunari's literature, but also unique insights. He is the best candidate to translate Kawabata's works.

Kawabata Yasunari's Selected Works (5 Volumes in Total)

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

527K0

"The Selected Works of Kawabata Yasunari" was translated by Tan Jinghua, a famous translator and the earliest domestic scholar to study Kawabata Yasunari, over many years. He reproduces the beauty of Japanese mourning with elegant translation. It includes 6 immortal medium-length masterpieces such as "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital", "Thousand Cranes", "Voice of the Mountain", "Waltz of Flowers" and "Thousand Birds on the Blue Waves", as well as 18 short classics such as "Izu Dancing Girl", "Diary of a Sixteen-year-old", "Celebrities who are proficient in funerals" and "Mother's First Love".

Flowers Are Not Sleeping (translated by Hefeng Cong)

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

155K0

"Flowers Are Not Sleeping" is a collection of classic works by the Japanese literary master Kawabata Yasunari. It includes essays such as "Flowers Are Not Sleeping", "I am in Beautiful Japan", "The Existence and Discovery of Beauty", and "The Beauty of Japanese Literature". These four articles on literature and aesthetic topics elaborate on the "beauty" in Kawabata Yasunari's heart, emphasizing his creative outlook based on the sense of disillusionment and vanity of uncertainty about life and death, as well as his admiration for the culture of the Heian Dynasty. His Zen thoughts and literary concepts are very oriental. In addition, short stories and novels such as "The Ballad of Wings", "Crystal Fantasy", "Snow", "Autumn Rain" and "Parent's Heart" are also included, which also reflect his active literary exploration and experimentation, inherit and carry forward the Japanese and Oriental "mono-sorrow" tradition, and reflect the essence of his Oriental aesthetics.

People Who Love (kawabata Yasunari's Works Series)

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

57K0

The work of Nobel Prize winner Kawabata Yasunari, nine touching moments about love, is the first collection of Zhuyu short stories published in China. "People Who Love" is a short story collection by Nobel Prize-winning writer Kawabata Yasunari. It includes nine short stories including "Mother's First Love", "A Woman's Dream", and "Letter About a Black Mole". A girl who was adopted by her mother's first love after her mother's death and fell silently in love with her mother's first love; a girl who has been unable to successfully date because of her first love's suicide; a wife who feels guilty because of her quirks; a dancing girl who is keen on playing dice; newlyweds who have just begun to feel the loveliness of children... Kawabata Yasunari's short stories are delicate, gentle and natural. The whole book centers on "love" and describes nine subtle moments about "love".

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty

General Fiction

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

135K0

Kawabata Yasunari's classic work, Yu Hua highly recommends it! "Sleeping Beauty" includes Kawabata Yasunari's classic masterpieces "Sleeping Beauty" and "La Bayadere". Eguchi, who is nearly seventy years old, comes to a mysterious hotel by the sea. Waiting for him there was the unconscious girl sleeping. Next to the fresh and young Sleeping Beauty, the old man regains the joy of life, but the past and nightmares also come one after another... Bozi, a middle-aged ballet teacher, is trying his best to entrust his dance dream to his daughter Tatoko in his hard life. At the same time, he is torn between the disappointment of drifting away from her husband and the expectation of reconnecting with his childhood sweetheart...

Mountain Sound

Mountain Sound

General Fiction

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

114K0

Kawabata Yasunari's classic work, Yu Hua highly recommends it! "Sound of the Mountain" mainly tells 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 book and "A Thousand Cranes" are recognized as the pinnacle of Japanese literature.

Translation Series of Kawabata Yasunari's Famous Works: Station in the Shower

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

100K0

On a rainy evening, women hold umbrellas and wait at the station for their husbands to return home. The loyal wife waited painfully twice. The first time she handed the umbrella to her rival's husband, and the second time she handed the umbrella to her former lover. "This has become a market for women to wait for their respective men, a marriage market where makeup and romance have been removed."

Born a Woman (kawabata Yasunari's Works Series)

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

193K0

The work of Nobel Prize winner Kawabata Yasunari depicts the dangers and chaos of young sensibility, the loneliness and fear of being born a woman, and delicately paints a picture of Showa women's life. "Born a Woman" is a representative novel by Nobel Prize-winning writer Kawabata Yasunari. In "Born a Woman", the Sayama couple, who are nearly forty years old, still have no children, but they have a harmonious relationship and live a prosperous and worry-free life. Out of sympathy, Sayama took in Taeko, the murderer's daughter; Arong, the daughter of his wife Ichiko's old friend, also ran away from home to join Ichiko, who longed for a free life in Tokyo. Taeko is restrained, introverted and sick, and her father committed a crime, which made her even more inferior; Arong is bold and willful, and falls in love with Ichiko and Sagawa at the same time. The originally peaceful family is in trouble because of these two girls... Kawabata Yasunari is a master of describing women's emotions and life. In his light narrative, he shows the pure, quiet and lamentable world of women.

Snow Country (chinese Translation of World Literature Masterpieces Series)

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

62K0

Tokyo dance artist Shimamura went to a hot spring hotel in Snow Country three times and fell in love with a local geisha named Komako by chance. At the same time, on the second train to the Snow Country, Dao Cun expressed his admiration for the girl Ye Zi who met by chance on the other side of the glass window. Shimamura, who has a lot of nihilistic thoughts, idles around and eats all day long. He believes that all the pursuits and efforts in life are "in vain". He feels helpless about Juzi's life experience and decides to break up. Although Juzi pursues true love, it is "in vain" and comes to nothing. After the death of his beloved, Ye Zi made an agreement with Shimamura to go to Tokyo. Unexpectedly, a fire broke out in the end. The novel finally ends with Ye Zi's unexpected death and Ju Zi's madness. It is a tragic story with beautiful writing and touching plot.

Fire Festival of the Sea (kawabata Yasunari's Work Series)

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

144K0

Summer, seaside, love, fire, death. The Chinese version of Yasushi Kawabata's debut novel is released for the first time. "The Fire Festival of the Sea" is the debut novel of the famous Japanese novelist Kawabata Yasunari. In this work, Kawabata Yasunari interweaves his first love experience with Indian and Greek mythology to write a charming youth novel. The story of the novel takes place on the Kamakura beach in midsummer. Young men and women Shinichi and Yumiko ignited the flames of love, but then the elegant and mysterious girl Tsukiko appeared, making Shinichi fall in love at first sight; Tachikawa and Asako were regarded as a perfect match by the people around them, but they both dared not break through the window paper; Tsukiko and his sister had a deep relationship, but the fathers of the two sisters were not the same. This secret made both of them extremely painful... Several young people chased each other on the beach of Kamakura, wandering, savoring the sweetness and sadness of their respective youths. When the Kamakura Umi Fire Festival was held, the lanterns of comfort disappeared with the waves, and the youth stories of several young people also came to an end.

Translation Series of Kawabata Yasunari's Famous Works: Shanyin

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

121K0

"Mountain Sound" describes the story of Shingo's family. The old man Xinwu has passed the age of hearing, and his two sons and daughters have got married one after another. It is supposed to be a time for them to enjoy family happiness. However, the daughter's marriage failed and she returned to her parents' home with her two children. The son had an affair. Xinwu felt sorry for his daughter-in-law Juzi, but he developed a subtle attachment, and the whole family was enveloped in an abnormal atmosphere. One night, Shinwu heard the sound of the mountains, like the sound of wind or waves. After the sound stopped, he fell into a kind of fear... In "Mountain Sound", everyone has everyone's misfortune. Kawabata never wanted to criticize anyone or laugh at anyone. He just appropriately presented the helpless feeling of fate.

Chizuru

Chizuru

General Fiction

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

85K0

Kikuchi's father is a famous tea ceremony master who once had an affair with a woman named Kurimoto Chikako, and later fell in love with Mrs. Ota. Four years after his father's death, Kikuchi met Mrs. Ota at a tea party hosted by Chikako Kurimoto, and began an illicit love affair with her... This book includes Kawabata Yasunari's Nobel Prize-winning novel "Thousand Cranes" and its sequel "A Thousand Birds of Blue Waves", which is known as the watershed in Kawabata Yasunari's writing career. It is a profound description of the conflict between love and morality. The text is meaningful and meaningful.

Purple Picture Classic Library: Kawabata Yasunari·beauty and Sorrow

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

109K0

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.

Snow Country

Snow Country

General Fiction

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

132K03

"Going through the long tunnel across the county boundary is the Snow Country. Under the night sky is a vast expanse of white." Geisha Komako and Shimamura met in the Snow Country. From then on, the lonely Komako began to look forward to a date with him once a year. On his third trip to Snow Country for an appointment, Shimamura was attracted by the pure illusion of leaves reflected on the car window. From then on, several people fell into entanglements of love and resentment, until a fire brought everything to an abrupt end... Life is a futile effort, but luckily love and beauty still exist.

Beauty and Sadness

Beauty and Sadness

General Fiction

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

99K0

Twenty years ago, a love affair between a married young writer and an innocent girl ended with the girl giving birth prematurely, dying of a baby girl, and suffering a mental breakdown. Then, the writer truly presented this emotional experience in a best-selling book, which changed the lives of everyone in the two families. In the lingering sound of the New Year's Eve bell, the trilogy of life, love, marriage, and family, also plays, rippling in the floating world.

Translation Series of Kawabata Yasunari's Famous Works: Thousand Cranes

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

94K0

This book includes Kawabata Yasunari's Nobel Prize-winning novel "A Thousand Cranes" and its sequel "Hamana Chidori". Kawabata Yasunari tells a story of abnormal love involving two generations in a writing style as white as snow and as light as a butterfly. Mitani Kikuharu's father was a famous tea ceremony master who once had an affair with a woman named Kurimoto Chiko, and later fell in love with Mrs. Ota. Four years after his death, Kikuji and Mrs. Ota met unexpectedly at a tea party held by Kurimoto Konko. Mrs. Ota longed for her former lover and moved to her son Kikuji, who also accepted this ungrateful love... "Thousand Cranes" depicts the conflict between love and morality.

Thousands of Cranes

Thousands of Cranes

General Fiction

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

87K01

Kawabata Yasunari's Nobel Prize-winning work is highly recommended by Yu Hua. This book includes the Nobel Prize-winning novel "A Thousand Cranes" and its sequel "A Thousand Birds". Mitani Kikuji's father was a famous tea ceremony master. He once had an affair with a woman named Kurimoto Chiko, and later fell in love with Mrs. Ota. Four years after his death, Kikuji and Mrs. Ota met unexpectedly at a tea party held by Kurimoto Konko. Ota missed his former lover and actually fell in love with his son Kikuji. Kikuji also accepted this unethical love...