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Snow Country：Snow country

内容简介

NobelPrizewinnerYasunariKawabata’sSnowCountryiswidelyconsideredtobethewriter’smasterpiece:apowerfultaleofwastedlovesetamidthedesolatebeautyofwesternJapan.Atanisolatedmountainhotspring,withsnowblanketingeverysurface,Shimamura,awealthydilettantemeetsKomako,alowlygeisha.Shegivesherselftohimfullyandwithoutremorse,despiteknowingthattheirpassioncannotlastandthattheaffaircanhaveonlyoneoutcome.Inchroniclingthecourseofthisdoomedromance,Kawabatahascreatedastoryfortheages—astunningnoveldenseinimplicationandexaltinginitssadness.,

作者简介

YasunariKawabatawasborninOsakain1899.In1968hebecamethefirstJapanesewritertoreceivetheNobelPrizeforLiterature.OneofJapan’smostdistinguishednovelists,hepublishedhisfirststorieswhilehewasstillinhighschool,graduatingfromTokyoImperialUniversityin1924.Hisshortstory“TheIzuDancer,”firstpublishedin1925,appearedinTheAtlanticMonthlyin1955.Kawabataauthorednumerousnovels,includingSnowCountry(1956),whichcementedhisreputationasoneofthepreeminentvoicesofhistime,aswellasThousandCranes(1959),TheSoundoftheMountain(1970),TheMasterofGo(1972),andBeautyandSadness(1975).HeservedasthechairmanoftheP.E.N.ClubofJapanforseveralyearsandin1959hewasawardedtheGoethe-medalinFrankfurt.Kawabatadiedin1972.

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