By Yasunari Kawabata
A much-needed translation of 70 brief tales by means of Kawabata. Enjoy!
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Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his paintings was once to be chanced on no longer in his longer works yet in a sequence of brief stories--which he known as "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"--written over the span of his occupation. In them we discover loneliness, love, and the passage of time, demonstrating the variety and complexity of a real grasp of brief fiction.
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She had foreseen her own death from her child hood, so she did not believe in time; she did not believe in the contin uation of time. And so it would be impossible to be chaste. “How often I’ve gazed at your body in an emotional way. But I’ve also gazed at your body all over in a rational way. ” “A beautiful laboratory. ” She began to feel hatred toward the doctor. She changed her position in order to avoid his eyes. A young novelist who was a patient in the same hospital spoke to her. “We should congratulate each other.
He felt a forlorn disillusionment toward the thing called carnal pas sion. Feeling confused and indignant, he pulled the trigger several times in succession. Shots shattered the autumn calm of the moutain. Chestnuts rained down. The dog ran toward the downed chestnuts. Howling playfully, he lowered his head and stretched out his front paws. Lightly batting at the burrs, he how led again. ” The women burst out laughing. The autumn sky arched high over head. One more shot. The O-Shin Jizo A drop of that brown autumn rain, a chestnut burr fell right on top of the bald priest’s head of the O-Shin Jizo.
Even if they remembered forever that Fujio had given her the cricket and that Kiyoko had accepted it, not even in dreams would Fujio ever know that his name had been written in green on Kiyoko’s breast or that Kiyoko’s name had been inscribed in red on his waist, nor would Kiyoko ever know that Fujio’s name had been inscribed in green on her breast or that her own name had been written in red on Fujio’s waist. Fujio! Even when you have become a young man, laugh with pleasure at a girl’s delight when, told that it’s a grasshopper, she is given a bell cricket; laugh with affection at a girl’s chagrin when, told that it’s a bell cricket, she is given a grasshopper.
