Amanda Quraishi hat Beauty and sadness von Yasunari Kawabata besprochen
Enchanting.
5 Sterne
I was overwhelmed by how beautifully this was written. It made me want to write.
151 Seiten
Sprache: English
Am 22. Januar 1986 von Penguin veröffentlicht.
Beauty and sadness
This book might be part of the Penguin modern classics series.
Yasunari Kawabata: Beauty and sadness (1986, Penguin)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-008201-2
- OCLC-Nummer:
- 15198158
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An erotic study of love and jealousy, this is Kawabata's haunting last novel before he committed suicide in 1972. On a nostalgic New Year journey to Kyoto, Oki, a middle-aged novelist seeks out the mistress he had abandoned some twenty years earlier. But Otoko, now a successful painter, has become involved with the beautiful ad talented Keiko. And it is Otako's vengeful young protegee who frustrates Oki's attempt to resurrect the past.
Kawabata uses his characteristic delicacy of touch to build up a tense atmosphere of menace and hysteria.