by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker
Death and sadness are words that seem to go together in a lot of Japanese literature and nobody, it seems, is better at it than Kawabata. He draws his characters as deftly as the the porcelain and china that is used for the tea ceremony itself.His minimalistic style suits his subject and his charact...
Beautiful, but I have a hard time with the heavy symbolism. The tea ceremony plays a central role. A very short audiobook. Excellent narration by Brian Nishii.
Fine book - but very strange, very japanese, austere to the point of the vanishing point... a series of strange love affairs are reduced to identifications with three-hundred year tea bowls fired in the kilns of 9th cen. tea masters. The underlying idea is quite fascinating, however. The tea-ceremon...
I read this book three times in French, once in Bulgarian, and I can't stop to admire it.
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