Yasunari Kawabata - Böcker

Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, a...

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Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive da...

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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, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woma...

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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, it is an essential expression of the Japanese sensibility. And in his fictional ...

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Follows the story of a tragic affair between a wealthy dilettante and a mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, in a tale of wasted love by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata Ineko has lost the ability to see things. At first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiance. The doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric...

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Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But...

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Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, a...

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Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But...

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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, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woma...

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Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive da...

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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 fianc . The doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric ...

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Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories--which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"--written ...

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In the 1920s, Asakusa was to Tokyo what Montmartre had been to 1890s Paris and Times Square was to be to 1940s New York. Available in English for the first time, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, captures the de...

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Three surreal, erotically charged stories from Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata.   In the three long tales in this collection, Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. Piercin...

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A fascinating discovery, Dandelions is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in 1972. Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions explores love and madness and consists almost entirely conversations between a woman...

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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, it is an essential expression of the Japanese sensibility. And in his fictional ...

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This Japanese literature collection contains four translated stories from two of Japan's most beloved and acclaimed fiction writers.The Izu Dancer, Yasunari Kawabata's first work to bring him recognition as a writer, is a novella about six Izu Pen...

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First published in 1958, this collection is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not-knowing, and with the lives of people who have been shattered by war, loss, and longing.

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The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capita...

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Eines der Hauptwerke des japanischen Nobelpreisträgers für Literatur Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) ist von Tobias Cheung neu, erstmals textgetreu übersetzt worden.Kawabatas Schneeland liegt jenseits hoher Berge, fern von Tokyo. Shimamura, ein Müßi...

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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 di...

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"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 me...

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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 d...

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This book is about the beauty of the book, random thoughts and random talks between Kawabata Yasunari, the great master of Japanese literature, and Yukihiko Yasuda, a great history painter in Japan, so that readers can enjoy the unique beauty of J...

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Om vi vill, kan vi läsa den korta berättelsen om Danserskan som den unge gymnasistens sinnesuppror och hans ansträngning att en gång för alla skingra molnen - ett "nu får det vara nog". Han ger sig ut på vandring på Izu. Han återvänder f...

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TIDEN och PATINAN är ett genomgående tema i romanen, som utspelar sig i städerna Kamakura och Kyoto. Den karta som Yasunari Kawabata lägger ut framför oss i Skönhet och Sorg är en vägledning till den gamla kejsarstadens kulturella minnesmärken. Fö...

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Danserskan på Izu Glädjechocken får gymnasiegrabben att tappa målföret när han hinner ikapp den lilla danserskan och hennes sällskap uppe i testugan. Men resan är av ödet utstakad, på andra sidan tunneln breder det löftesrika landskapet ut sig och...

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TIDEN är ett genomgående tema i Skönhet och sorg, som på ytan ser ut att handla om sexualitet och hämnd men som är en djupdykning i japansk estetik. För hämnden står den unga konstnärinnan Keiko, som skrider till verket med den egna kroppen som ve...

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