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Anonymous Thu Jan 19 20:58:01 2023 No.21546993 [Reply] [Original]

I don't get the hype. It was just alright.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 21:58:59 2023 No.21547248 >>21546993 Don't worry. It's for old men.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 22:01:42 2023 No.21547267 It’s basically Anna Karenina without all the farming bullshit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 01:36:32 2023 No.21548124 >>21547267 But that was the best part. Also how is this anything like Anna Karenina?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 01:37:29 2023 No.21548126 >>21548124 I haven't read either book, but if you thought about it a little more you'd see I'm right.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 01:41:44 2023 No.21548144 File: 14 KB, 679x370, Carlos.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21547248

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 01:44:45 2023 No.21548154 >>21546993 You just described all of japanese literature.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 01:46:04 2023 No.21548157 >>21547248 good job.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 03:15:39 2023 No.21548472 >>21546993 Felt the same but I also finished the last eighth of it while moderately drunk. I really liked Thousand Cranes, though.

Anonymous Fri Jan 20 03:22:34 2023 No.21548494

>>21546993
The Japanese writers of that time implied a great deal regarding internal conflict to reflect the society they were in where following the forms of society take precedent over the individual. I find it quite effective and it lends it a weird stream of consciousness quality despite being in the 3rd person. I like this one, don't really remember much of it though, is on my reread list and my current read of The Gate is giving me a strong desire to revisit Kawabata and Tanizaki.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 08:10:26 2023 No.21549197 snowcunny!! ToT

Anonymous Fri Jan 20 08:20:17 2023 No.21549210

>>21548472
Same.
I really liked Thousand Cranes so I was excited to read this. They have a lot in common, e.g. the impressionistic writing style, much of the characters' thought process being implied, but for some reason Snow Country felt pretty forgettable. I'm missing out on most of the cultural subtext and whatever is lost in translation, though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 09:05:07 2023 No.21549290 >>21548126 kek

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 14:51:07 2023 No.21549992 >>21548126 I am enlightened.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 15:10:56 2023 No.21550047 File: 1.20 MB, 2446x3000, 4431CB19-D058-4AE9-A783-BD4D80D38FF3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21549197 Yes YES!

Anonymous Fri Jan 20 16:53:12 2023 No.21550366

>>21546993
That's sad, I didn't like the other one I tried by Kawabata, but Snow Country really worked for me. The setting is so terrific, and it felt like it had a great balance in the main dude's perspective between brutal honesty as dismissal and brutal honesty as an invitation to tenderness

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 17:08:49 2023 No.21550427 >>21546993 because you probably read an english translation

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