Sincere Remembrance -- The Works of Yasunari Kawabata

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar (France), translated by Wang Xiaofeng
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: Madam! It is a great pleasure to welcome you here in this ancient and renowned building. Of course, you are not an academician here, but you are a female academician. This is a vivid peace revolution, in which you yourself constitute one of the significant events in a 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 the past 350 years possessed the breadth of talent of one such woman.