Hello readers, the book I want to introduce today is "Ancient Capital".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" >01 content introduction</h1>
"Ancient Capital" contains Yasunari Kawabata's classic novels "Ancient Capital" and "Celebrity".
In the ancient capital of Kyoto, Chieko, who was adopted by a brocade merchant, became a beautiful girl. On the night of Gion Festival, she meets the mountain village girl Miaozi and is surprised to learn that the two are twin sisters.
They miss each other, but they can't recognize each other because of the disparity in identity. The sisters' faint sorrow weaves into kyoto's four seasons...
Before the go master Xiuya retired, he decided to bid farewell to the chess world with a farewell match. Old and sick celebrities and young new chess kings, old chess art and new rules of victory and defeat, an epoch-making chess game kicked off under the world's attention...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" >02 Author Profile</h1>
Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), Japanese writer. Ikki Osaka.
In 1968, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "keen feelings, superb narrative skills, and the expression of the spiritual essence of the Japanese people".
Representative works include "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital", "Thousand Cranes", "Mountain Sound", "Sleeping Beauty" and so on.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" >03 original golden sentence</h1>
Maybe luck is short-lived, but loneliness is long-lasting.
- Quoted on page 171
People rack their brains to make rules, but they are exploiting loopholes in the rules.
- Quoted on page 214
Indeed, the remains were emotional. But this old man had no feelings anymore. When I think about it, I feel that this picture is neither alive nor dead, but taken as if the living were asleep.
- Quoted on page 197
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