SOURCE: "Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972): Tradition versus Modernity," in World Literature Today, Vol. 62, No. 3, Summer, 1988, pp. 375-79.
In the following essay, DeVere Brown discusses how Kawabata focused on traditional culture in his major works.
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