New Releases by Yasunari KAWABATA

Yasunari KAWABATA is the author of Japan Beautiful & Myself (1997), Koto ovvero i giovani amanti dell'antica città imperiale (1997), Thousand Cranes (1996), Snow Country (1996), Beauty and Sadness (1996).

61 - 88 of 88 results
<<

Japan Beautiful & Myself

release date: Jun 02, 1997

Koto ovvero i giovani amanti dell'antica città imperiale

release date: Jan 01, 1997

Thousand Cranes

release date: Nov 26, 1996
Thousand Cranes
A luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner and author of Snow Country. "A stunning economy, delicacy of feeling, and a painter’s sensitivity to the visible world.” —The Atlantic While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents’ deaths, Kikuji encounters his father’s former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion—a passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota’s daughter, to whom Kikuji’s attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning.

Snow Country

release date: Jan 30, 1996
Snow Country
This masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. • “Kawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time.” —The New York Times Book Review 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.

Beauty and Sadness

release date: Jan 30, 1996
Beauty and Sadness
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • 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. "Endlessly provocative and original." —The New York Times Otoko is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continued to love Oki and has never forgotten him, but his return unsettles not only her but also her young lover. This is a work of strange beauty, with a tender touch of nostalgia and a heartbreaking sensitivity to those things lost forever.

Lupain ng taglamig

release date: Jan 01, 1991

Kawabata Yasunari zenshū: Yukiguni

release date: Jan 01, 1989

La Casa de las bellas durmientes

release date: Jan 01, 1989

La Maître ou Le Tournoi de Go

release date: Jan 01, 1988

NUEE D'OISEAUX BLANCS

release date: Jan 01, 1986

Les Belles endormies

release date: Jan 01, 1986

Kawabata Yasunari zenshū: Bungaku jihyō I-IV

Kyoto

Kyoto
Kyôto, qui fut écrit en 1962, est sans doute l''œuvre de Kawabata qui explique le mieux son suicide, dix ans plus tard - comme d''ailleurs le suicide de tant d''écrivains et de grands intellectuels japonais postérieurs à la révolution (autrement dit l''européanisation forcenée) de l''ère Meiji. Kyôto raconte l''histoire de deux jumelles, très tôt orphelines, qui ont été élevées séparément. Elles ne se retrouvent qu''une fois devenues jeunes filles. Mais elles ont été formées par des milieux à ce point différents que, d''elles-mêmes, elles décident de ne plus se revoir. Au-delà de ce thème très simple, c''est tout le drame du Japon moderne qui est le sujet de Kyôto : l''européanisation puis, après Hiroshima, l''américanisation accélérée d''une société qui avait jusqu''alors vécu sur des bases sociales, culturelles et morales entièrement autres. C''est la décadence, la mercantilisation et l''enlaidissement irrémédiables de l''ancienne capitale de l''Empire du Soleil levant que ce grand roman sobre et pur nous permet de comprendre. Dès lors, la dimension universelle du Kyôto de Kawabata n''échappera à personne.

Bellezza e tristezza

Bellezza e tristezza
Oki Toshio, uno scrittore di mezza età, desidera ascoltare dal vivo, per la prima volta, il suono delle campane l''ultima notte dell''anno. La motivazione recondita del suo viaggio a Kyoto, tuttavia, è ritrovare Ueno Otoko. Vent''anni prima, i due hanno avuto una travagliata relazione, segnata dalla ferita di una gravidanza interrottasi e dalla successiva separazione. Otoko, che nel frattempo è diventata un''affermata pittrice, sembra ancora profondamente legata al suo vecchio amore. Vive con la giovane allieva Keiko, una figura misteriosa e ambigua, morbosamente attaccata a Otoko al punto da volersi vendicare di Oki. Le pagine di Bellezza e tristezza (1965) disegnano un intricato paesaggio sentimentale e incarnano la tipica forma di "romanticismo lirico" che ha reso Kawabata noto in tutto il mondo. Come suggerisce Mishima nella Postfazione, si tratta di un genere letterario romantico, in cui «i contorni fisici degli individui sfumano e le passioni vengono lasciate fluttuare nella loro forma autentica... fino a sopprimere il dualismo tra bene e male, al punto che antagonisti e alleati, vivi e morti, si fondono insieme in un''unica, viva tristezza». Ed è proprio da questo comune senso di malinconia che Kawabata riesce a trarre una vivida forma di felicità: tra cupi, opprimenti salti temporali e momenti di struggente imprevedibilità, Bellezza e tristezza riflette il doloroso splendore della vita, la fragilità umana che ci accomuna e le conseguenze ineluttabili delle passioni irrisolte.
61 - 88 of 88 results
<<


  • Aboutread.com makes it one-click away to discover great books from local library by linking books/movies to your library catalog search.

  • Copyright © 2025 Aboutread.com