Yasunari Kawabata: 11 books

Three surreal, erotically charged stories from Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. In the three long tales in this collection, Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. Piercing examinations of sexuality and human psychology—and...

“The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lust—all the elements of Kawabata’s fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel that rises to the incantatory fascination of a N­ō drama.”...

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...

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...

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Yasunari Kawabata, Prix Nobel de littérature. C'est d'une rupture de fiançailles et d'une rencontre avec une troupe de théâtre itinérant dans la péninsule d'Izu que le futur auteur des "Belles Endormies" et de "Pays de neige" s'est inpiré pour...

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Yasunari Kawabata. Eguchi, 67 ans, découvre la "Maison des Belles Endormies", où de jeunes filles vierges, endormies sous l'effet de narcotiques, livrent la nudité de leur corps à la voluptueuse contemplation d'hommes âgés. Pendant cinq nuits...

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents’ deaths, Kikuji encounters his father’s former mistress,...

This Japanese literature collection contains four translated stories from two of Japan's most beloved and acclaimed fiction writers. The Izu Dancer, Yasunari Kawabata's first work to bring him recognition as a writer, is a novella about six Izu Peninsula travelers. As the six travelers journey...

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Yasunari Kawabata. Gimpei, le personnage central du "Lac", s'attache aux pas des jeunes filles dans la rue. Rien ne peut l'empêcher de les suivre. Elles sont belles, radieuses, pures, encore enfantines. Il est envoûté par leur séduction. Il marche...

A fascinating discovery, Kawabata’s unfinished final novel Dandelions is a great master’s last word A fascinating discovery, Dandelions is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in 1972. Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions explores love and...

The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find 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 continued to love Oki and...