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(★)(Translated by Howard Scott Hibbett)(´NI-0343´es mismo libro.)(Titulo original : 美しさと哀しみと [Utsukushisa to kanashimi to]／ Beneath a surface as placid as a temple pool, ´Beauty and Sadness´ is an intensely erotic exploration of the aftermath of an affair of a married man and a teenaged girl. The story opens, twenty-four years after the affair has ended, with the sentimental reunion of Oki Toshio, a successful novelist firmly ensconced in the literary and social establishment, and his one-time mistress Oroko, still beautiful and now a painter.／ The lingering bitterness of their illicit liaison, which has haunted them all the while, poisons all around them and irresistibly draws in Oroko´s young protege, Keiko, who becomes the agent of a bizarre drama of revenge.／ ◆Kawabata was one of Japan´s most distinguished novelists. He is famous for adding to the once fashionable naturalism imported from France a sensual, more Japanese impressionism. He was born in Osaka in 1899. As a boy, he hoped to become a painter, an aspiration later reflected in his novels. But his first stories were published while he was still in high school, and he decided to become a writer. He was graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924. His story ´The Izu Dancer´, first published in 1925, appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1954. It captures the shy eroticism of adolescence, and thereafter Kawabata has devoted his novels largely to aspects of love. He was also a prominent literary critic and discovered and sponsored such remarkable young writers as Yukio Mishima. In 1948 he was appointed chairman of the Japanese Center of the P.E.N. Club. His death by suicide in April 1972 came as a tremendous shock to his admirers both in Japan and abroad.) |
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