SOURCE: "Kawabata Yasunari," in Dawn to the West, Japanese literature of the Modern Era: Fiction, Vol 1, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984, pp. 786-845.
Keene is an American scholar and critic who has produced a number of translations and studies of Japanese literature. The following excerpt is taken from his discussion of Kawabata in the fiction volume of his acclaimed two-part literary history of contemporary Japanese letters. Here he surveys Kawabata's early short fiction, particularly "The Izu Dancer, "placing it in the context of the author's life and artistic development
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