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| Name: |
Yasunari Kawabata | | Birth Date: |
June 11, 1899 | | Death Date: |
April 16, 1972 | | Place of Birth: |
Osaka, Japan | | Place of Death: |
Zushi, Japan | | Nationality: |
Japanese | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
novelist |
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 Biography of Yasunari Kawabata
644 words, approx. 2.1 pages
 Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) was a distinguished Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize in literature for exemplifying in his writings the Japanese mind. Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka on June 11, 1899, into a cultured family, his father being a... summary from source:
 Biography of Yasunari Kawabata
7183 words, approx. 23.9 pages
 Kawabata Yasunari was the first (and, until 1994, the only) Japanese author to achieve international status through receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, which came to him in 1968. His writings attracted a worldwide audience who saw in them expressio...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Snow Country Information
1,005 words, approx. 3 pages
Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni?) is the first full-length novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel established Kawabata as one of Japan's foremost authors and became an instant...
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 The Boston Globe X-country areas need that snow
11/15/1992: 1,266 words, approx. 4 pages There were some 140 cross-country ski areas in New England last winter and the good news for XC skiers (who had reason to worry) is that there should be just about as many this season. However, another winter like 1991-92, which saw much of... summary from source:
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Cross-country skiing snows a newcomer
04/18/1999: 888 words, approx. 3 pages Norwegians watch cross-country ski races with the same zeal we Americans show for impeachment trials. They don't use the term "cross-country skiing," though. The Norwegian word is langrenn, which translates directly as, "Look at this amazing collection of frozen snot in my beard!" ... summary from source:
 Road and Track Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT
6/1/2006: 654 words, approx. 2 pagesWhen it appeared in 2004, we liked this exoti-luxury sedan giving the well-heeled enthusiast a decidedly Italian alternative to top-line German sedans. Think Filet all'Aceto Balsamico, beef steak sauced with vinegar di Modena (get the Tradizionale!), in lieu of Schweinhaxe, that succulent rotisserized pork from...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by J. Thomas Rimer
1,427 words, approx. 5 pages
[Snow Country] holds the potential to shed considerable light not only on the larger purposes of Kawabata's work but on the techniques of Japanese narrative fiction in general. In this regard, Snow Country is a mirror, reflecting both backwards and forwards…. [Kawabata's Nobel Prize acceptance speech] provided a selection of certain principles especially important to him, many of them related in turn to Zen Buddhism.
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Critical Essay by Geoffrey Grigson
495 words, approx. 2 pages
It is a maximal artistry which strikes me first about Kawabata, even in translation. Artistry in fiction among other things means that a reader is never bored, also that he accepts, that he has to accept, the inevitability and instantaneous quality of the things described, the persons, the actions, the situations, being just so…. At once Kawabata establishes a situation. Sometimes in the very first sentence. Snow Country, an extraordinary study of love and sensuality which was the first of his books ...
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