Kawabata Yasunari Collection -- Solitary Shadow Self-Appointed

Author: Yasunari Kawabata
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Publication Date: 2002-02-01
Features: Collected Works of Yasunari Kawabata, Yasunari Kawabata's literature not only combines with the traditions of classical Eastern literature, including Chinese literature, and Japanese literature after the Heian period, but also has a deep connection with Western literature, including modernism, at the beginning of the "New Sensibility" movement. The substantial connection between the long-standing Eastern traditions and Western modernist literature, along with a broad concern for the world, is a characteristic that runs through Yasunari Kawabata's works. The diversity of his literature has only been widely understood by the world in the present era, nearly two decades after he received the Nobel Prize in Literature and on the eve of his centennial birth. It is also one of the features of 20th-century literature. We hope that Chinese readers can, through this translated publication of the "Collected Works of Yasunari Kawabata," appreciate the diversity of Yasunari Kawabata's literary creation and the charm of his literature. Learn from the West, but never simply imitate it; instead, create literature that is distinctly Eastern. May readers come to appreciate the true value of Yasunari Kawabata's literature.