Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante, meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages — a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.“Beautifully economical. . . . The haiku works entirely by implication; so, in this novel, using the same delicate, glancing technique, Mr. Kawabata probes a complicated human relationship.” — The Times Literary Supplement (London)“Kawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time.” — The New York Times Book Review

Snow Country (Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Kawabata, Yasunari

Classics

Penguin Books Ltd

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante, meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages — a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.“Beautifully economical. . . . The haiku works entirely by implication; so, in this novel, using the same delicate, glancing technique, Mr. Kawabata probes a complicated human relationship.”  — The Times Literary Supplement (London)“Kawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time.” — The New York Times Book Review

Snow Country

Unknown

Literary

Penguin Group

Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura, and their love offers no freedom to either of them. "Snow Country" is both delicate and subtle, reflecting in Kawabata's exact, lyrical writing the unspoken love and the understated passion of the young Japanese couple.

Random House Inc

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages — a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.

Contemporary

TarcherPerigee

Berkley

VINTAGE

Brilliance Audio

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.
At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante, meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages — a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.
“Beautifully economical. . . . The haiku works entirely by implication; so, in this novel, using the same delicate, glancing technique, Mr. Kawabata probes a complicated human relationship.” — The Times Literary Supplement (London)
“Kawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time.” — The New York Times Book Review

Dans les montagnes du nord, la neige est, plus qu'un décor, le symbole de la pureté perdue. Elle pétrifie le temps et l'espace, et délimite le champ clos où va se nouer le drame entre Shimamura, un oisif originaire de Tokyo venu dans le Pays de Neige pour retrouver Komako, une geisha, et Yôko, une jeune femme rencontrée dans le train. Etrange relation triangulaire où Shimamura pourra croire qu'il a trouvé l'unité qu'il cherche, unité du corps et du coeur, entre les jeux sensuels de Komako et les jeux de regards de Yôko. Ce Pays de neige du Prix Nobel 1968 est une incantation, un chant harmonieux et pur, qui se finit dans le rouge sang de l'incendie. On y retrouve l'art de la peinture des sensations à petites touches pudiques et la musique des sens qui, du Grondement de la montagne à Tristesse et beauté ou Les Belles Endormies, imprègnent l'oeuvre de Kawabata (1899-1972), ainsi qu'un dépouillement qui pourrait s'apparenter au Zen s'il n'était hanté par le bruit souterrain de la mort.

Pays de neige

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