SOURCE: "The Mysterious East," in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 67, No. 4, Autumn, 1991, pp. 778-79.
In the following essay, Lebowitz discusses the prevalent themes in Kawabata's The Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, and how their compactness "reflects elements at once of primitivism and sophistication."
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