1. Kawabata Yasunari's famous work is "The Dancing Girl of Izu". His main representative works include "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital" and "Thousand Cranes".
2. Introduction to the work:
1. "The Dancer of Izu" describes a 19-year-old sophomore high school student who came to Izu alone to relieve the unspeakable melancholy and depression in his heart. While traveling, I met a wandering artist and his entourage by chance, and developed a longing for the little dancer there that seemed to be in love but not in love.
Izu's dancing girl Kaoruko deeply attracted "me". The article writes about the process from each little thing to the final separation between "me" and Xunzi.
2. "Snow Country" is about a dance art researcher named Shimamura in Tokyo. He went to the hot spring hotel in Snow Country three times and met a local geisha named Komako and a girl who met by chance. The emotional entanglement between young girls Ye Zi. Shimamura is a middle-aged man with a wife and children. He lives on his inheritance and has nothing to do. He occasionally studies and comments on Western dance through photos and written materials.
He came to the hot spring hotel in the snow country, met the geisha Komako, and was attracted by her beauty and simplicity. He even felt that "every crook of her toes was very clean." I went to Snow Country twice to meet Ju Zi.
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The influence of Kawabata Yasunari's masterpieces
Kawabata Yasunari (かわばたやすなり, 1899-1972), a "leading figure" in the Japanese literary world , New Sensationist writer, famous novelist.
He wrote more than 100 novels in his life, more short and medium stories than long novels. The works are lyrical, pursue the sublimated beauty of life, and are deeply influenced by Buddhist thought and nihilism. Kawabata Yasunari is good at using stream of consciousness writing to show the inner world of characters. He became famous for writing "Izu Dancer".
In 1968, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his three masterpieces: "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital" and "Thousand Cranes". Anders Osterling, executive director of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and chairman of the Nobel Prize Selection Committee, delivered the award speech, emphasizing prominently:
"Mr. Kawabata was obviously influenced by modern European realism. However, Mr. Kawabata also clearly shows this tendency: he is faithfully based on Japanese classical literature, maintaining and inheriting the pure traditional Japanese literary model. A delicate charm can be found in Mr. Kawabata's narrative techniques. "Poetry"
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