Broadly, because I deeply disliked both main characters. I really wanted the novel, with it’s poetic and spare writing, to grab my heart by it’s beating valves and drag me around the mountains of snow country.ĭisappointingly, that did not occur. I did not love the novel, but please, do not assume I am a lazy or stupid reader. So much has been said/written about this novel that I doubt I can add much value to the overall volume of commentary. The Kawabata Yasunari Prize for literature was established in 1973 by the Kawabata Yasunari Memorial Association to honor Japan’s first Nobel Prize–winning novelist. The winner receives a certificate, a commemorative gift, and a cash award of one million yen. There is an annual prize in Japan awarded to the year’s most accomplished work of short fiction. His Nobel Lecture was entitled Japan, The Beautiful and Myself and I do want to take a look at that. Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, which made mention of Snow Country and two other of his works. This is the first Kawabata novel that I have read, though I own several. I read the Vintage International edition translated by Edward G. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (1899 – 1972) was published in its finalized form in 1948.
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