Kawabata Yasunari: A Solitary Shadow Names Itself

Author: Yasunari Kawabata (Japan)
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: Collected Works of Yasunari Kawabata. The literature of Yasunari Kawabata 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 "Sensory Movement." The profound connection between the long-standing traditions of the East and the essence of modern Western literature, along with a broad concern for the world, is a characteristic that runs through Yasunari Kawabata's literature. This diversity of his literature has only been widely understood by the world now, in the present moment, as it approaches the centennial of his birth and more than two decades after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. It is also one of the characteristics of 20th-century literature.