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Beauty and Sadness (Paperback)
- Author: Yasunari Kawabata
- Publisher: Vintage Books
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The double nature of eros and love, the perennial themes in Kawabata's work is at the core of this novel. nowwhere else does he so clearly set out his preoccupation with the way sickness, decay and mortality are endlessly revealed at the heart of love's promise of immortality.
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- Genre: Fiction & Literature Themes, Fiction & Literature Genres
- Subgenre: Literary, Types of Characters, Literary Genres & Types of Novels, Conflicts & Dualities, Love, Relationships & Sex, Human Qualities & Behavior
- Date Published: January 01, 1996
- Release Date: January 01, 1996
- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Author: Yasunari Kawabata
- Pages: 206
- Format: Paperback
Additional Information
- DPCI: 248-24-9813
- ASIN: B002RR3ZDI
- Catalog #: 11818742
- ISBN: 9780679761051
- Item can be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 8 inches length x 5 inches width x 0.5 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.60 pound.
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"A connsummately skillful arrangement of space and stillness, a brush drawing of love and vengeance.
Reviewer: Thomas Moore, (Utne Reader)
"It's a poignant story about simple, sensual beauty and the sadness that is generated by letting oneself experience beauty. The whole history of literature on the soul focuses on themes that are not very popular in our literature today--things like beauty, friendship, pleasure, melancholy. In the past people talked about 'melancholy' or 'sadness' or 'loneliness,' but today we bracket it all into 'depression'--and medicate it. So when I found a book with the title 'beauty and Sadness,' I couldn't resist it."
