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  House of Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories (Paperback) By (author) Yasunari Kawabata

  Book rating: 05

  

  

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  Short Description for House of Sleeping Beauties and Other StoriesFrom Japan's first Nobel laureate for literature, three superb stories exploring the interplay between erotic fantasy and reality in a loner's mind. "He was not to do anything in bad taste, the woman of the house warned old Eguchi. He was not to put his finger into the mouth of the sleeping girl, or try anything else of that sort." With his promise to abide by the rules, Eguchi begins his life as ...
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  • Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd
  • Published: 05 March 2004
  • Format: Paperback 160 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories | Fiction In Translation
  • ISBN 13: 9784770029751 ISBN 10: 4770029756
  • Sales rank: 49,405

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Reviews for House of Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

• Kawabata's esoteric masterpieceBook rating: 5

  This "esoteric masterpiece" as Yukio Mishima describes it, is a very carefully constructed story, about ageing, eroticism, death, youth and memories. The setting is a closed space, the "house of the sleeping beauties" that starts ...more This "esoteric masterpiece" as Yukio Mishima describes it, is a very carefully constructed story, about ageing, eroticism, death, youth and memories. The setting is a closed space, the "house of the sleeping beauties" that starts to become more an more tensioned as the story unveils similar to a "submarine in which people are trapped and the air is gradually disappearing" (Yukio Mishima). The story will haunt you long after you've read it. Also I find Edward Seidensticker's translation magnificent. The words are very carefully chosen and the way he constructs the phrases gives the story the formal perfection of the original. by Dorin Budusan

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