Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter He Jing
Photo: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
On April 16, 1972, Japan's first Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata passed away, on this occasion, Japan began to hold a variety of commemorative activities, in addition to his masterpiece "Snow Country" was first filmed into a TV series, the Museum of Modern Japanese Literature will hold the "Yasunari Kawabata Exhibition", and the Yasunari Kawabata Literature Museum will unite with local attractions to launch a tour exhibition of "Touching Kawabata Yasunari's World View".
Yasunari Kawabata's masterpieces "Snow Country", "The Dancing Girl of Izu", and "Ancient Capital" are all milestone works in the history of Japanese literature, and the text is beautiful and sentimental, containing the most delicate mood of Japanese aesthetics. Because of the unique aesthetic temperament of his works, he has always been defined as a "lonely scribe".
Recently, the Chinese translation of "Yasunari Kawabata: The Two-Faced Man" by Japanese scholar Atsushi Kotano was launched by Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House. In this biography, which took 15 years to write, the authors are committed to changing the long-standing research habit of praising and labeling Kawabata research.
In the preface to the book, the author gives a straightforward account of the point and the characteristics of the biography. "After finishing the preliminary research of Kawabata's biography, I would like to first tell you a surprising discovery - Kawabata is a very social writer... Of course, I didn't want to write a book critical of Kawabata, I just wanted to write a biography without any taboos. ”
Starting from a large number of data research, based on diaries, letters, and oral memories of friends, Atsushi Kotano consulted nearly 400 kinds of literature, including the Complete Works of Yasunari Kawabata, and sorted out the annals of Yasunari Kawabata, thus refining the linear narrative of the biography to a specific time point in a certain year, month, and even a certain day. In this book, Atsushi Kotani truly recreates the details of Yasushi Kawabata's life trajectory, and at the same time, he is centered on him and shows the complex and diverse ecology of the Japanese literary scene during the Showa period. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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