Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Eric Cheruiyot Maritim Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 132 ISBN: 9783848403042
Описание
In 1968, Kawabata Yasunari became the second Asian literary figure to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature after the Indian, Rabindranath Tagore. He was among a crop of Japanese literary artists-cum-critics who quested for a distinctively ‘modern’ Japanese narrative (shosetsu) as opposed to narrative tradition of pre-Meiji Japan. The Nobel Committee noted the uniquely Japanese narrative tone and form in his work. Together with Yokomitsu Riichi, Kataoka Tepei, he envisioned a narrative in which characters’ mental dispositions, ‘feelings and sensory experience’ were undifferentiated from the crude reality. For Kawabata this turned out as a re-vision of pre-modern Japanese literary idioms and techniques, mainly the haiku aesthetic which pervade his narrative presentation of female characters. This work sets out to examine Kawabata’s two novels, Snow Country and The Old Capital and two short stories, ‘The Izu Dancer’ and ‘One Arm,’ against the backdrop of the traditional Japanese...
