Beauty And Sadness - Softcover

Kawabata, Yasunari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140047360 ISBN 13: 9780140047363

Publisher: Penguin, 1979

Synopsis

151pp . In English. ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: Yasunari Kawabata, June 11, 1899 - April 16 , 1972) , writer - novelist , was the first Japanese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. Born in Osaka.La solitude in which he spent his childhood after the death of their loved ones deeply marked his personality. Orphaned at age 3, Insomniac perpetual, filmmaker in his youth, voracious reader of both classical and European avant-garde , was a lone inveterate . In 1920 he entered the University of Tokyo in the career of Literature in English , and a year later changed to the Literature of Japan . While attending college sixth " Shinjicho " literally , the new trend of thought) where he published some of his work , which opens the way to the literary world is published . In 1924 finished college, and the first issue of " Bungei - jidai " Times Literary Arts ) , a journal of a group of intellectuals who belonged appears . This publication gathered promising new writers who used a writing style (the " Shinkankaku -ha" , the new school of sensations ) wherein the composition consisted in the sensitive apprehension of reality in the manner of intellectuals. He debuted as a writer at The Dancing Girl of Izu published in 1927 , reaching the consecration in Japan ten years later with Snow Country . Get the Goethe medal in Frankfurt in 1959. Win Nobel for literature in 1968 , and gives the speech called " beautiful Japan Del , its me " Nihon no watashi Utsukushii . Although the circumstances of his death are not entirely clear , is believed to have committed suicide by inhaling gas three years later. On April 16, 1972 , sick and depressed , hurt no doubt by the death of his friend Y. Mishima , who had described as a " perpetual traveler" , committed suicide in a small apartment on the shores of the sea. That same year posthumously published the fictional biography Meijin . Mentor 's also great writer Yukio Mishima . His best known in the West books are The Land of Snow Yukiguni , T

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0140047360
• ISBN 13: 9780140047363
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160