Collection of Kawabata Yasunari -- The Sun and the Moon. Red Circle in Asakusa

Author: Kawabata Yasunari
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: Kawabata Yasunari is the second Eastern writer after Rabindranath Tagore to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. They pioneered in introducing Eastern literature to the world. When we evaluate the merits and shortcomings of each of Kawabata's works, we cannot suddenly grasp the significance and value of Kawabata's literature as a whole. That is to say, he established his historical position on the coordinate axis of the integration of Eastern and Western cultures, and, and integrated them, creating literature with Japanese beauty and national characteristics, thus placing his literature among the world literary landscape.