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'Perhaps his finest work is Snow Country' - Jason Cowley, The New Statesman ().

(.) This is a finely written book, excellently translated.' - Eileen Fraser, Times Literary Supplement Seidenstricker, has done his work well.' - The Times Kawabata's mountain village in all the beauty of the changing seasons is a poet's vision of the loveliness in life the translator, Mr.

'He has fashioned an idyll out of unpromising material.The greatest merit of this book is the descriptive power with which the author evokes the Japanese alpine scene.' - Maurice Cranston, Sunday Times '(T)he processes by which the love affair develops are so extremely Oriental and inscrutable that one misses the satisfaction of following the details of a drama of which the general outline is familiar.Keine einfache Aufgabe, gewiß.' - Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (.) Will man diesen durch und durch ästhetisierten Text, der die Möglichkeiten des Japanischen, Aussagen gewissermaßen in der Schwebe zu halten, bis an die Grenzen der Verständlichkeit treibt, ins Deutsche bringen, so gilt es, einen passenden Ton dafür zu finden. Was zählt, sind vielschichtig verknüpfte sinnliche Eindrücke, die sich netzartig über verschiedene Zeitebenen verzweigen. 'Die Ereignisse als solche sind allerdings so unscheinbar und nebensächlich, daß sich der Autor selbst in seinem Erzählgespinst verhedderte.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorĪ- : artful relationship- and character-study Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.

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