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(★)(Translated by Howard Scott Hibbett)(´NI-0270´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.／ ◆Yasunari Kawabata [1899-1972] was born in Osaka, the son of a wealthy and prominent physician, but was raised in the country by his grandfather after his parents´ early deaths. As a youth he seemed destined to be a painter, and his rich visualization formed the heart of his writing. After his graduation from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924, he quickly went to the forefront of modern Japanese writing and after the war built an immense international literary reputation, capped in 1968 with the Nobel Prize in literature. He died by his own hand.) |
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