SOURCE: "The Margins of life," in Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel University of California Press, 1974, pp. 95-121.
In the excerpt below, Masao examines Kawabata's early experimentation with European avant-garde aesthetics in several short stories. The critic finds "The Izu Dancer, " however, a tradition-based piece that provides an "alternative to the eccentric internationalism of [Kawabata's 'modernist9 stories."]
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