Kawabata Yasunari: The sound of human footsteps

Author: Ye Weiqiu
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: Kawabata Yasunari is the second Eastern writer after Tagore to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. They pioneered the introduction of Eastern literature to the world. When we evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each of Kawabata's works, we cannot overlook the importance of grasping the overall significance and value of Kawabata's literature. In other words, he established his historical position on the coordinate axis of the integration of Eastern and Western cultures, and the of Western modern culture, and fused them to create literature with Japanese beauty and national characteristics. This allowed his literature to stand among the ranks of world literature.