Yasunari Kawabata

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. …

The fusion of reality and fantasy in the minds of the old and the lonely is the central theme of these Japanese stories.

Stol de păsări albe este un roman scris de scriitorul japonez Yasunari Kawabata. În japoneză romanul se numește “Senbazuru”, cuvânt ce simbolizează un motiv ornamental reprezentând “o mie de cocori”, inspirat din arta tradițională japoneză a plierii hârtiei – origami. Romanul a fost publicat în Japonia pentru prima …

The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continues to love Oki and has never forgotten him, …

Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other’s black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible …

“Vuietul muntelui”, roman scris de scriitorul japonez Yasunari Kawabata, publicat pentru prima dată în limba japoneză în anul 1954, sub titlul “Yama no oto”. Prima ediție publicată în românește a fost la Editura Minerva în anul 1973, în același volum cu romanul “Stol de păsări albe”. Cea de-a doua ediție a fost …

The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono …

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories is the name Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata gave to more than 140 short stories he wrote over his long career, though he reputedly preferred the reading Tanagokoro for the 掌 character. The earliest story was published in 1920 with the last appearing posthumously in 1972. The stories are …

Available again, a newly translated collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature. "He employs devices from those long poetic traditions in order to create in modern prose his remarkable effects: juxtaposition of image upon image to open up the depths of …