Snow Country

Snow Country

* Nihility, purity, sorrow – the crystallization of Japanese beauty.
* Crossing the long tunnel on the prefectural border, one enters the snow country. Under the night sky, the earth was brilliantly white.
* Yasunari Kawabata's masterpiece, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
* Translated by Gao Huiqin, a renowned Japanese literature translator.
* A classic masterpiece that influenced literary giants such as Mo Yan and Yu Hua.
* *Snow Country* is one of Yasunari Kawabata's most celebrated works. In 1968, Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for three works: *Snow Country*, *The Old Capital*, and *Thousand Cranes*.
*Snow Country* tells the story of Shimamura, a man living off inherited wealth and delighting in studying imaginary Western dance, who visits a hot spring village in the northern snow country three times. There, he encounters Komako, a geisha, and Yoko, a girl he met briefly on the train.
Kawabata meticulously depicts the serene and pure landscape of the snow country: thick layers of snow, low-lying houses clinging to the earth, the brilliant Milky Way in the northern night sky, and the snow country women whose love burns fiercely. Although Shimamura is attracted to Komako, from his perspective, obsessed with the pursuit of ephemeral beauty and convinced that all things are futile, Komako's beauty, her passionate love, and all her self-sacrificing deeds are meaningless...
* "Snow Country is a lighthouse on my writing journey." — Mo Yan
* "Kawabata's works enveloped my writing for the first three years or so. During that time, I rejected almost all other writers." — Yu Hua
* "I have always believed that Mr. Kawabata's heart was so cold, so vast, so precious. He hardly lived for himself; the lives of others, in his empty space, gave rise to a kind of light. That is why he is still alive. This is the reason for his lyricism." — Hideo Kobayashi, Japanese Critic

2023-08-30

上海译文出版社

Shanghai Translation Publishing House New Texts

136

9787532792320