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The House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

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內容簡介 Three erotically charged short stories from Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.In the tales in this collection, Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata probes the interplay of erotic fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. In ”House of the Sleeping Beauties,” an old man pays to sleep with—but not touch—beautiful, sedated young girls; in ”One Arm,” a young woman gifts a man her right arm for the night; and in ”Of Birds and Beasts,” a middle-aged man’s memories of an affair with a dancer mingle with glimpses of his abnormal attachment to his pets. Piercing examinations of sexuality and human psychology—and works of remarkable subtlety and beauty—the stories in House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories, translated by Edward Seidensticker, showcase one of the twentieth century’s great writers—in any language—at his very best.

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.

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