Name: Dandelions (Penguin Modern Classics)
SKU: 51738355
Price: 511.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Yasunari Kawabata
ISBN: 9780241367186

portada Dandelions (Penguin Modern Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yasunari Kawabata

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780241367186

Dandelions (Penguin Modern Classics)

Yasunari Kawabata (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

New Book Imported to Taiwan

Delivery: 24 Sep - 02 Oct

NT$ 511

NT$ 511

Add to Wishlist

Synopsis "Dandelions (Penguin Modern Classics) "

The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari KawabataIneko has lost the ability to see things. At first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiancé. The doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric clinic to recover. As Ineko's mother and fiancé walk along the riverbank after visiting time, they wonder: is her condition a form of madness - or an expression of love? Exploring the distance between us, and what we say without words, Kawabata's transcendent final novel is the last word from a master of Japanese literature. 'Lusciously peculiar' Paris Review

Yasunari Kawabata

(Author)

View Author's Page

Yasunari Kawabata (Osaka, Japan, 1899 – 1972) was one of the great writers of the 20th century and the first Japanese to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1968), an award given for the delicacy of his prose and his ability to capture the essence of the Japanese spirit

Marked from childhood by orphanhood and deep loneliness, Kawabata expressed in his works a melancholic sensitivity and a unique aesthetic that combines tradition and modernity. Educated in Japanese Literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo, he was the founder of the magazine Bungei Jidai (The Artistic Era), the voice of the Japanese neosensualist avant-garde

Among his most emblematic novels are "Snow Country" (Yukiguni), "Thousand Cranes" (Senbazuru), "The Sound of the Mountain" (Yama no Oto), as well as "The Master of Go", "The House of the Sleeping Beauties", "Kyoto" and "Beauty and Sadness". His subtle and poetic narrative explores themes such as ephemeral beauty, loneliness, and the passage of time

In addition to the Nobel, Kawabata received distinctions such as the Goethe-Medaille (Germany, 1959), the Order of Arts and Letters of France, and the Order of Culture of Japan. He was president of the Japanese PEN Club, promoting Japanese literature worldwide

See less