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 <i>The House of Sleeping Beauties</i> is a 1983 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. Hwang's fourth play, it is an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's novella <i>House of the Sleeping Beauties</i>. The play depicts Kawabata and how he might have... 
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 Critical Essay by Yukio Mishima
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 "House of the Sleeping Beauties" is most certainly an esoteric masterpiece. (p. 7) [It] is dominated not by openness and clarity but by a strangling tightness. In place of limpidness and purity we have density; rather than the broad, open world we have a closed room. The spirit of the author, flinging away all inhibitions, shows itself in its boldest form. I have … likened "House of the Sleeping Beauties" to a submarine in which people are trapped and the air is gradually ... summary from source:
Critical Review by The Times Literary Supplement
449 words, approx. 2 pages
In the following review, the critic asserts that the stories in Kawabata's House of the Sleeping Beauties are "linked … by the theme of a lonely subject and his peculiar eroticism, and by the interplay of reality and fancy within a lonely mind."
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Critical Review by Paul Stuewe
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In the following excerpt, Stuewe asserts that in House of the Sleeping Beauties, "Kawabata's writing … confronts the most basic contradictions of human life with poise and serenity, and makes high art out of the existential ebb and flow that will ultimately lay us low."
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