Description
This first full length, and long overdue, study of Kawabata, Japans first Nobel laureate for literature and the most widely known for his novels Snow Country (1960) and Sound of the Mountain (1970).
Table of Contents
Introduction, 1 An Orphan Psychology, 2 An Ambiguous Redemption, 3 Experiment and Expansion, 4 Between Tradition and Modernity, 5 Elegies for A Dying Tradition, 6 Time and Anti-time, 7 Narcissus in Winter
