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Ein Mann an der Schwelle zum Alter wird von einem Freund eingeführt in ein Freudenhaus besonderer Art. Es sit für alteMänner bestimmt und bietet junge Frauen im Tiefschlaf an. Eguchi verbringt - in kürzer werdenden Abständen - mehrere Nächte in diesem Haus neben immer anderen jungen Frauen und Mädchen, die zurückhaltend und genau, sinnlich und diskret beschrieben werden. Eine jede ist anders. Eine jede weckt andere Phantasien, andere Erinnerun...

Handtellergeschichten, das sind Geschichten, die auf einen Handteller passen, Kurz- und Kürzestgeschichten, witzige Farcen, expressionistische Miniaturen, irreale Traumbilder und scheinbar alltägliche Begebenheiten, die den Horizont auf ein ganzes Leben öffnen. Yasunari Kawabata, japanischer Schriftsteller und Nobelpreisträger, ist für seine Handtellergeschichten, die das Herzstück seines Werkes bilden, berühmt geworden.

A Osaga Shingo le preocupa la decadencia moral de sus descendientes. Su hijo, Shuichi estß casado con la maravillosa Kikuko, pero le es infiel y tiene un hijo con otra mujer.

Yasunari Kawabata was born near Osaka in 1899 and was orphaned at the age of two. His first stories were published while he was still in high school and he decided to become a writer. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924 and a year later made his first impact on Japanese letters with Izu Dancer. He soon became a leading figure the lyrical school that offered the chief challenge to the proletarian literature of the late 1920s. Hi...

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The Lake is the story of a stalker. Homeless, a fugitive from an ambiguous crime, he has an incurable longing that drives him to trail certain women he meets as he wanders about. The longing is for something out of reach: a beauty admired from a distance, unconsumated.

"Fra le opere di un grande scrittore si potrebbero annoverare quelle che corrispondono al dritto di una medaglia, o di una moneta, e il cui significato è evidente e visibile, e le altre che appartengono al rovescio della medaglia, e il cui significato è celato, nascosto, sul retro. Volendo, si potrebbe confrontarle rispettivamente al buddhismo essoterico e a quello esoterico. Nel caso di Kawabata, "Il paese delle nevi" rientra...

Die Schönheit Japans und des Ostens waren aus dem Go entwichen. Alles ist zu Wissenschaft und Regulierung verkommen."1938. Der alte und sterbenskranke Go-Meister Honinbo Shusai trifft in einer letzten Partie, deren Verlauf sich über mehr als sechs Monate erstreckt, auf den jungen, auf­­strebenden Kitani Minoru. Kawabata beobachtet die Begeg­nung zwischen altem und neuem Japan, er beschreibt das Ringen von Tradition und Moderne, von Ästhe­tik u...

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 on...

Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible Master and a younger, more modern challenger, Yasunari Kawabata captured the moment in which the immutable traditions of imperial Jap...

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Il suono della montagna", apparso nel 1949, è considerato con "Il paese delle nevi", il maggior romanzo di Kawabata, Premio Nobel 1968 per la letteratura. Il personaggio centrale del libro è Shingo, uomo sensibile e inquieto, assorto nei sogni e nelle tristezze del passato, nei terrori e nelle premonizioni del presente. Di fronte alla decadenza inarrestabile della sua vita e della sua famiglia, Shingo si lega sempre più strettamente a Kikuko, ...

Kawabata's The Old Capital mentioned in the citation accompanying his 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, is now available in a quality paperback edition of Martin Holman's well-received translation.