Northern Archives -- The Complete Works of Yasunari Kawabata

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar (France), translated by Chen Xiaojing
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: Madam! It is a great honor for me to welcome you in this ancient and renowned building where you are now. Of course, you are not an academician here, but you are a female academician. This is a vivid and peaceful revolution, in which you yourself constitute one of the most significant events in the long and glorious history. Madam, I should not hide from you that you are here today not because you are a woman, but because you are a great writer. May it be wished that all the men we have elected over these 350 years possess the broad talent of a woman like you.