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In the following review, Smock calls Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories one of "those dozen or so volumes necessary to life."
Somewhere in my future is a small, simple apartment,...
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In the following review, Anderer discusses the style and themes of Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories gives us an opportunity to redirect attention and critical inqui...
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In the following review, DeVere Brown praises the spare style of Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.
Kawabata's masterpiece, the novel Snow Country, is written in a spare, elliptical st...
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In the following essay, Lebowitz discusses the prevalent themes in Kawabata's The Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, and how their compactness "reflects elements at once of primitivism and sophis...
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In the following review, Ury praises the stories in Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.
A woman, breaking with her married lover, gives him a pair of canaries as a memento of their affair. The...
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Critical Review by Frederick Smock
