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1. Background information
Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972): Japanese novelist and one of the representative writers of the New Sensations. His works are impressionistic and novel, and because of their deep influence from Buddhism, they often have a negative pessimistic mood. Representative works include "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital", "Sleeping Beauty", "Izu's Dancing Girl" and so on. Yasunari Kawabata won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the second Oriental writer after Tagore to receive the award.
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" is an early masterpiece of Yasunari Kawabata and an outstanding short story that has had a profound impact on readers. The plot of the work is simple, describing the story of a young student who meets a young dancer when he is traveling alone in Izu, and the beautiful waters of Izu are intertwined with the pure love between young boys and girls, reflecting each other, giving the reader a freshness, purifying the reader's heart, and bringing them into an ethereal and beautiful aesthetic world.
2. Wonderful excerpts
1. When I have you, whether it's buying a tie at a department store or cleaning up a fish in the kitchen, I feel happy. Love is like a warm current that moisturizes me. When I lose you, I am very interested even in the face of birds and flowers. Everything seems lonely, empty. The perceptual mind becomes sluggish and unable to even capture its own soul. It is sad to lose a lover, and what is even more sad is to lose a heart.
2. The road between the mountains is misty, the clothes are wet by the rain, the chest and the double script should feel cold, but the back is wet with sweat because of the rapid walking, and it is anxious because of the unbearable emotions. The first acquaintance of love at such a young age, in such a dreamlike mountain, is destined to be a feeling that can be remembered but cannot be achieved.
3. I am in a beautiful state of emptiness, and no matter how kindly people treat me, I bear it very naturally. I think it is also very appropriate to take the old woman to Ueno Station early tomorrow morning to buy her a ticket to Mito. I felt like everything was coming together. My mind turned into a flood of clear water, ticking out, leaving nothing behind, only feeling sweet and happy.
Third, please the reader's recommendation
Americans like to deify loneliness. Thoreau, who built a hut by Walden Lake, is immortal, as if solitude can make people leap to perfection. But in Japanese literature, there is a sense of madness and loneliness. What is rare is the truth, neither exaggerated nor deliberately disguised. Since reading, loneliness has spread from the book and haunts the reader.
In "The Dancer of Izu", the "I" in the journey is full of joy caused by having a dancer and a group of dancers as travel companions, and a trace of trepidation caused by good feelings when facing the dancers. In the end, the twenty-year-old "I" had to bid farewell to the dancers in advance due to the shyness of my pockets, and lay on the boat back to Tokyo and quietly wept. "I" have feelings for the dancer, and the dancers' feelings for "me", just like the babies of Eiki and Chiyoko who died prematurely, were only born for a week, but they did not even have the strength to cry, and they died and were buried in the depths of memory.
Yasunari Kawabata's brushstrokes are delicate and soft, and the protagonist's heart is properly integrated into the scenery along the way. The feelings between him and the dancers are described naturally and thoroughly. During the reading, the fresh and dreamy sketching style brought the scene in the text to life in front of my eyes. This is a distinctive feature of Kawabata's style and the attraction of his work. "I" travels away from home alone, with the dancers on the way, and in the end, returns to being alone.
The idyllic truth is like a slow-motion music, clean and transparent. Splash a cup of tea, play a game of chess, read a story, live simply. May you be in a beautiful state of emptiness that can be endured very naturally, regardless of people or events. Happy Green Lohas Day on Wednesday!
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