Snowflake

Author: Akio Morita
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book tells the story of a successful individual who experiences marital failure, emotional setbacks, and his relentless pursuit of the ultimate beauty in life. In the end, when everything is lost, he realizes that love is as empty as a snowflake in his palm. The novel reflects the conflict between human nature and social ethics, as well as the helplessness and loss of the emotionally weak. The protagonist's love is fragile; his lonely, cold, selfish, and obsessive love subjects both parties to the torment of rational and emotional clashes. This book is a typical work of the author's aestheticism. The extramarital affair in the novel may have idealistic elements, but it is destined to be free from pain from the beginning. The destruction of beauty is a negation of perversion love.