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...
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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 at...
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In the following essay, Pilarcik asserts that Kawabata's "The Master of Go … captures the poignantly beautiful fading of an era as Japan enters the modern age."
The work...
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In the following essay, Maddocks discusses Kawabata's The Master of Go, Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow, and the tradition of Japanese literature.
There is a fascinatingly mysterious prin...
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In the following review, Friedman asserts that Kawabata's "The Master of Go may not be a novel, but it is a journalism recollected in tranquility."
The Chess Match of the Centu...
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In the following excerpt, Freese and Moorjani analyze the symbolism of the Go match in Kawabata's The Master of Go, and assert that the story is a movement toward the Master's death.
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In the following essay, Bourque analyzes Kawabata's The Master of Go as a modern tragedy.
At first glance the application of the thoroughly Western dramatic concept of tragedy to an Oriental...
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Teaching The Master of Go
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Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Critical Essay by Marlene A. Pilarcik
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