Dandelions by Kawabata, Yasunari

Dandelions

A fascinating discovery, Dandelions is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in 1972.Beautifully spare...
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Author: Yasunari Kawabata
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Language: English
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Dandelions by Kawabata, Yasunari

Dandelions

€21,51

Dandelions

€21,51
Author: Yasunari Kawabata
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A fascinating discovery, Dandelions is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in 1972.

Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions explores love and madness and consists almost entirely conversations between a woman identified only as Ineko's mother, and Kuno, a young man who loves Ineko and wants to marry her. The two have left Ineko at the Ikuta Clinic, a mental hospital, which she has entered for treatment of somagnosia, a condition that might be called "seizures of body blindness." Although her vision as a whole is unaffected, she periodically becomes unable to see her lover Kuno. Whether this condition actually constitutes madness is a topic of heated discussion between Kuno and Ineko's mother: Kuno believes Ineko's blindness is actually an expression of her love for him, as it is only he, the beloved, she cannot see.

In this tantalizing book, Kawabata explores the incommunicability of desire and carries the art of the novel, where he always suggested more than he stated, into mysterious and strange new realms. Dandelions is the final word of a truly great master, the first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize.



Author: Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 12/12/2017
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780811224093


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 10/02/2017
Library Journal 12/01/2017
Shelf Awareness 01/12/2018

About the Author
Kawabata, Yasunari: - Best known in the West for such novels as Snow Country, Beauty and Sadness, and A Thousand Cranes, Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka in 1899. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.Emmerich, Michael: - Michael Emmerich is an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California. He is the author of "The Tale of Genji" Translation, Canonization, and World Literature and the translator of numerous books from the Japanese.

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