Ebook {Epub PDF} Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
Kawabata was no exception; his work has been influenced by both traditions, and is widely read in the West as well as in Japan. Kawabata is best known in the United States for novels such as Snow Country, A Thousand Cranes, and The Sound of the Mountain, but he also wrote many very short stories — a form he called tanagokoro no shôsetsu ("palm-of-the-hand stories"). Together, Kawabata’s palm-of-the-hand stories make up a richly varied jeweled net that it is a luxury to regard, and perhaps begin to unravel, at one’s leisure. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories was first published in Now, almost years after Kawabata wrote the first of his short shorts, this collection remains fresh and relevant. Now, almost years after Kawabata wrote the first of his short shorts, this collection remains fresh and relevant.
Palm Of The Hand Stories|Yasunari Kawabata. Ready-To-Read 7. Featured. Top Top Most Wanted Young Adult. Popular Fiction. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman, contains 70 of the brief vignettes Kawabata wrote across the span of his career. While "Gleanings from Snow Country" is unique in its novelistic origins, the other works in the collection—most only a few pages long—evoke an urgency and substance that makes a. Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories Yasunari Kawabata, Author, J. Martin Holman, Translator, Lane Dunlop, Translator North Point Press $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author.
Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in , the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories--which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"--written over the span of his career. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata. Written by Kevin Jae on 05/31/ Some of these short, short stories felt shocking and absurd, either because of Kawabatan intention or because of the brutal reduction of the narrative–or both: Kawabata was an avant-garde writer back in the day, influenced by surrealism, cubism, dadaism, and. Kawabata is the Nobel Literature winning author of Snow Country among other (novels and short stories). Throughout his amazing literary career, he was fond of writing very short 'palm of the hand' stories.
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