Yasunari Kawabata

Sep 9, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Yasunari Kawabata |Sherrie Flick |Sandra Cisneros |Justin Torres

Reading Lists These writers prove that you don’t need a lot of words to write a good story Flash fiction is a form that often skirts the line between narrative poetry and short fiction, offering a depth of narrative and poetic expression. When I think about books that have had the most palpable impact on me, I realize that many of them use innovative forms. And many of the most memorable flash fiction books combine form and content in unexpected ways. Betsy Reed argued that one of most...

Feb 22, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata born in 1899, is one of the foremost living Japanese novelists, president of the Japan P. E. N. Club and a member of the Japan Academy. His work has a delicate, lyrical quality which places it in sharp contrast to the prevailing realism of the social novelists. The Izu Dancer, first published in 1925, is the masterpiece of his early period. It has been somewhat abridged here.

Feb 12, 2024 | winstonsdad.wordpress.com | Yasunari Kawabata

Erasure by Percival EverettAmerican FictionSource – Library bookI feel I was bound to read Percival Everett at some point in the next year, his new novel due out later this year. James, a retelling of the Huck Finn story from the point of view of Jim, the slave they meet along the way was on my radar like most of his recent books.

Feb 11, 2024 | winstonsdad.wordpress.com | Yasunari Kawabata

The Rainbow By Yasunari KawabataJapanese literatureOriginal title- 虹いくたび (Niji ikutabi)Translated by Haydn TrowellSource -personal copyIn January, I read far more Japanese novels than I could review. This is a new translation from the Nobel prize-winning writer Yasunari Kawabata. He was the first writer from Japan to win the Nobel prize. He was given the prize for his narrative mastery, and his great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind.