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Read snow country

>>21969516
Another recommendation is Snow Country by yasunari Kawabata, friend of Mishima and nobel prize winner
Snow country was one of three works of his for his nomination and winning of the Nobel prize in literature

>>21424167
I love Japanese literature so much, reading snow country for the first time was an experience that i wish i could do again. The subtle way Kawabata writes the relationship between shimamura and komako is beautiful, especially when its plainly obvious that he has his eyes on yoko. But my favorite part is the end where yoko falls from the warehouse. To me it represents loss of beauty
speaking of beauty, another good Japanese book is the temple of the golden pavilion, outside of the literally me character named Mizoguchi, it holds significant value as its about the obsession with beauty and how it can alienate you from life. "It is impossible to hold onto eternity with one hand and life in the other" haunts me because to mizoguchi his stutter is brought on because of the idea of beauty. He sees him as ugly and outcast to the world so he begins to hold onto the golden temple in which he begins to see not only the acolytes but the superior also as powerless. There's also a Buddhist tale in it that represents Mizoguchi. "Nansen kills the cat" in it two halls of acolytes in temple fight over a beautiful cat and they brought it to father nansen who told them to save the cat they must say a word of zen but since there is no word of zen he killed the cat but he didn't kill it all instead he gave it life in other forms. what it represents is Mizoguchi is Nansen and the temple was so beautiful like the cat, that Mizoguchi couldn't handle the temple and decided to burn it down to bring about a new world

>>21395950
>Pic related
>Confessions of a mask by yukio mishima
>Naomi by Junichiro tanizaki
>Kokoro by Natsume Soseki

Start with those

>remembers that this masterpiece exists
>Instantly feels better
Thank you, Kawabata, you did amazing work

Snow country is a masterpiece
The cover is also perfect for it
Kawabata was a very talented writer

>>21260293

>I rike Japanese literature

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