가와바타 야스나리

The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continues to love Oki and has never forgotten him, …

《센바즈루》는 가와바타 야스나리가 1949년부터 1951년까지 몇 개의 잡지에 나누어서 6회에 걸쳐서 집필한 소설이다.

The fusion of reality and fantasy in the minds of the old and the lonely is the central theme of these Japanese stories.

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. …