Kawabata: "Snow Country"

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"Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country ranks as one of the most widely read and influential novels in contemporary Japanese literature. It has also been cited as the novel which more than any other gave Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. It has been called a "nihilistic fairy tale" and remains one of the most widely read texts in modern Japanese literature (Rimer 154). The story tells of a love affair between an urban man and a country geisha, and what is most remarkable about the book is its unity of purpose and structure. The book was written over a fourteen-year period (from around 1923 through 1937), though it does not read as if it were in any sense disjointed or divided into sections from different periods of time. Indeed, this is all the more remarkable given that the different sections of the book were published in different periodicals with no real ..."

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