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SNOW COUNTRY

作者 KAWABATA, YASUNARI
出版社 Penguin Random House LLC
商品描述 SNOW COUNTRY:WiththebrushstrokesuggestivenessandastonishinggraspofmotivethatwonhimtheNobelPrizeforLiterature,YasunariKawabatatellsastoryofwastedlovesetamidthed

內容簡介

內容簡介 With the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yasunari Kawabata tells a story of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan, the snowiest region on earth. It is there, at an isolated mountain hotspring, that the wealthy sophisticate Shimamura meets the geisha Komako, who gives herself to him without regrets, knowing that their passion cannot last.Shimamura is a dilettante of the feelings; Komako has staked her life on them. Their affair can have only one outcome. Yet, in chronicling its doomed course, one of Japan's greatest modern writers creates a novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness. 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. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages — a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka in 1899. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of Japan’s most distinguished novelists, he published his first stories while he was still in high school, graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924. His short story “The Izu Dancer,” first published in 1925, appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1955. Kawabata authored numerous novels, including Snow Country (1956), which cemented his reputation as one of the preeminent voices of his time, as well as Thousand Cranes (1959), The Sound of the Mountain (1970), The Master of Go (1972), and Beauty and Sadness (1975). He served as the chairman of the P.E.N. Club of Japan for several years and in 1959 he was awarded the Goethe-medal in Frankfurt. Kawabata died in 1972.

商品規格

書名 / SNOW COUNTRY
作者 / KAWABATA, YASUNARI
簡介 / SNOW COUNTRY:WiththebrushstrokesuggestivenessandastonishinggraspofmotivethatwonhimtheNobelPrizeforLiterature,YasunariKawabatatellsastoryofwastedlovesetamidthed
出版社 / Penguin Random House LLC
ISBN13 / 9780679761044
ISBN10 / 0679761047
EAN / 9780679761044
誠品26碼 / 2611104763005
頁數 / 175
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裝訂 / P:平裝
語言 / 3:英文
級別 / N:無

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