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Catching Fire (final chapters added)

Background: The

Japanese literature spans more than two thousand years. In its early years the influence of Chinese literature

was palpable, but Japan quickly managed to find a style and quality. When

Japan in the nineteenth century, reopened its borders to the world, local literature was strongly influenced by Western literature,

Nihonshoki
pages.

Nihon Shoki (日本书纪) is the second oldest book on the history

of Japan

. Described from the time of gods until the time of the Empress

Jito in 697. There is an explanation that assumes that the original title was Nihongi. 30 volumes were completed (there) and 1 genealogy (there) at 720. Compilers are the prince
Toneri

(
Toneri

Shinn), Ki no Kiyohito Páginas del Nihonshoki.

, Miyake Fujimaro not
,

Yasumaro or other unknown.

myths are known Shoki officers are less interesting than the

Kojiki, the ancient book of Japón.Hay another strong doubt on the existence of the first emperor in Shoki. Historians today consider the eight generations from the second to ninth in the order of emperors invention Shoki compilers. The existence of the first Emperor Jinmu

is suspect. The Emperor Sujin

is considered the first real king.

source literary text of the introduction of wikipedia. Major Japanese Writers: Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, highlighted in the twentieth century by the refined delicacy and lyricism of his works. Kawabata was born in Osaka on June 11, 1899. The solitude in which he spent his childhood following the death of their loved ones profoundly marked his personality. Orphaned at age 3, perpetual insomniac filmmaker in his youth, classic regular reader, was a loner.
After graduating in 1924 he founded Bungei Jidai (The Age Art). It was precisely in that magazine which appeared in 1926, "Izu no odoriko" ("The dancer of Izu"), a story full of images lyrics and suggestive, which drew inspiration from the Buddhist scriptures and medieval Japanese poets, that the author constituted "the highest in the world literature."

Loneliness, fear of death, the pursuit of beauty and attraction of female psychology, expressed all in a symbolic, lyrical style, were central themes around which revolved Yukiguni (1948, Snow Country ), Yama no oto (1949-1954, The cry of the mountain) and Nemureru hijo (1961; Fine dormant), works of artistic fulfillment earned him in 1968, the Nobel Prize for literature. Yasunari Kawabata

committed suicide in Zushi 16 April 1972. His work, which he defined as an attempt to find harmony between man, nature and the emptiness, remains among the highest in twentieth century fiction.

The Sound of Mountain

By Yasunari Kawabata

280 pp.

(EMEC)

The Sound of Mount

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"The sound is off and, suddenly, he was afraid. I wanted to interrogate, with calm and determination, if it had been the sound of the wind, the murmur of the sea or a ringing in his ears. But it was another thing that was certain. The mountain. "Ogata Shingo has begun to lose memory. At night, in bed, hear the distant sound of the mountains, a sound that he associated with death. In the middle of it, are the emotions that form the basis of his existence: his weary wife, son and daughter-dilettante who inspires compassion in the elderly and sexual desire. The sound of the effect of translating with acute mountain beauty, as few novels have done, the drama of the passage of time. In his portrait of an old businessman from Tokyo, Yasunari Kawabata gradually unravels the limitations imposed by age to life and sudden fits of passion and enthusiasm that, from time to time, the light. The apparently fixed constellation of family relationships, the charm of nature, love and passion are some elements of this novel hypnotic, causing an unusual fascination, while deeply concerned.

The Izu Dancer

296 pp.
(EMEC)

The Izu Dancer

Yasunari Kawabata

224 pages. (EMEC)

The most beautiful feature the dancer was his glowing and huge dark eyes. rere

The double curve of the eyelids was unspeakably lovely. Then came the smile like a flower. Where appropriate, the word "flower" was quite appropriate. Neither
stories or personal testimonies, stories of the Izu Dancer constitute a veiled autobiography of the troubled teenage years of Yasunari Kawabata. Marked by the loss of kin, the ceremonies of mourning and the ghost of memory, the author does, with style and at the same time disturbing, compose memorable scenes from the painful memories.
The early writings of Nobel Prize 1968 Literature accompanied in this edition, several "stories in the palm of the hand" that had not been published previously. Urban prints of Japan prior to World War II, new versions of oriental folk motives, perceptions, intensely vivid, modern and little moral fables about love, desire and sexuality complete this work by the "master of disappointment" in the literature twentieth century.

History in the palm

Yasunari Kawabata

History in the palm

(EMEC)

The Master of Go

Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, Yasunari Kawabata in Latin America is widely known for his novels incisive, beautifully lyrical and deep.

But according to him, the essence of his art must be sought in the series of short stories that were called "history in the palm of the hand" written throughout his life. Began experimenting with short forms in 1923 and returned to them every so often. In fact, the last of his works was reduced to fit the palm of your hand one of his major works, Snow Country, written shortly before his suicide in 1972.

As dream, intensely atmospheric, at times autobiographical, sometimes fantastic, these stories reflect the Japanese author's interest focused on the miniature, the passage of arguments essentially reduced to writing and lightning. In stories on living palms loneliness, love, time, and death rituals. This collection of stories captures the unique range and complexity of one of the greatest literary talents of the twentieth century.

The Master of Go

Yasunari Kawabata

208 pages.

By 1938, the Go player Shusai Honnimbo-meijingodokoro unbeatable, is near death. It is the Grand Master of the time, then it will not be any other player so highly. The teachers, chosen within the noble families, be included in the annual tournament where they compete under the tutelage of the shogun. The time Shu-sai, the last of the Honnimbo-heading will be measured by the young master Otake, who symbolizes the transition ideal of the tradition to a new, different and yet undetermined. Viewer exception of the war, Yasunari Kawabata attended the endless tournament, which lasted almost half a year, with an extensive three-month interruption caused by the aggravation of Shu-sai. Finally defeated on 4 December 1938, he died a year later. The Master of Go is the fictional biography of a man who goes to meet his fate with great dignity, an odd piece of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1968.

Thousand Cranes in the beautiful city of Kamakura, a woman who hides a spot in one breast and then manipulate the precious ritual objects of a transfer, like ghosts, the weight of eroticism from one generation to another. And so, a young man inherits his father's amorous obsessions, an expert in tea ceremony. Thousand cranes in flight appear throughout the story as a mysterious patronage. Yasunari Kawabata, a major Japanese writers of the twentieth century, this novel explores the power of desire and regret, and sensual nostalgia, in a beautiful story where every gesture has a meaning, and even the slightest touch or breath has the power to illuminate entire lives, sometimes at the very moment they are destroyed.

Yasunari Kawabata Snow returns to the country attracted by the beauty of the season and the traditional lifestyle. But again KOMAK especially, a young apprentice geisha who met on a previous trip. He is a wealthy man, middle age, trying to escape a bleak marriage and his life in Tokyo. She was a beautiful woman vulnerable to their own emotions, which mature in the eyes of her lover. Passionate love to bounce on KOMAK Shimamura poses a dilemma: unable to reciprocate, yet fascinated by his intensity, opt for repeat and extend his stay at the spa building the perfect distance that gives the host-geisha. A third character, Yoko's mysterious, weaves its fate to the couple, with the white of the snow as a background and continuing presence.
subtle and powerful writing of Kawabata Yasunari returns with a novel that relates to master the triangle of love, beauty and landscape

This complete and unpublished correspondence between Kawabata and Mishima, covering twenty-five years (1945-1970), illuminate the secret affinities which, in apparent contrast, linked to these two great Japanese writers of the twentieth century. Early in his exchange of letters, Mishima was just a boy. For he was a master Kawabata. This, and a famous writer, he could appreciate the talent of the student and encouraged him since. They shared several themes and obsessions: the attraction to death, transcendent perception of human relationships, overcoming self-Dyed of cruelty, the requirement of absolute perfection, devotion to beauty. At the end of their lives are joined by suicide, both elected two years apart. Reading these valuable pages is a unique experience and revealing literary personality of Kawabata and Mishima and incontestable proof of a friendship as deep as refined.

208 pages.

Driven by nostalgia, Toshio Oki decided to travel to Kyoto to hear the temple bells ringing in the New Year. But it also wants to see Otoko, his former lover, now a painter. Still beautiful, lives with his protected Otoko Keiko, an amoral young, sensual and passionate early twenties. Keiko trigger this cruel drama of love, revenge and destruction. Yasunari Kawabata, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, has established himself as one of the most distinguished Japanese novelists. At seventy-two years old, committed suicide, leaving no explanation. The beautiful and sad is the posthumous testimony of the mastery of psychological mastery of virtuosity and originality of his work.