SOURCE: "Last Extremity: Kawabata's House of the Sleeping Beauties, " in Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, Vol. XIII, No. 1, 1970, pp. 19-30.
In the essay below, Kimball closely scrutinizes the imagery in "House of the Sleeping Beauties, " detecting numerous pairs of opposing or contradictory images in the story.
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