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Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata

Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata. Is there essential emptiness to be found in the pursuit of beauty?. Fusing a world of opposites. Kawabata’s lyrical prose is based on the elements of haiku: Seventeen syllables poems Seek to convey a sudden awareness of beauty by mating incongruous terms

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Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata

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  1. Snow CountryYasunari Kawabata Is there essential emptiness to be found in the pursuit of beauty?

  2. Fusing a world of opposites • Kawabata’s lyrical prose is based on the elements of haiku: • Seventeen syllables poems • Seek to convey a sudden awareness of beauty by mating incongruous terms • Characteristically fuses motion and stillness

  3. The collision of opposites within the novel • Man and Nature • Reality and Illusion • Beauty and Waste • Lightness and Darkness • Innocence and Loss of purity • Warmth and Cold • Sadness and Happiness • Stagnation of Time and Timelessness • Acceptance and Denial of Love • Modernity and Antiquity Can you think of any others?

  4. Important Motifs • Wasted Effort • Honesty • Mirrors and dreams • The tyranny of beauty • Friendship and romance • Purity (woman and girl) Can you think of any others?

  5. Important Symbols • Heat and Cold • The Occidental Ballet and Shimamura’s involvement in it • Mirrors and their reflections • Death of the insects • Chijimi • Spatial Distance of characters • Movement to and from the inn and mountains • Kikuyu • Colors • Seasons (when Shimamura visits: Spring/Winter/Autumn) • Architecture Can you think of any others?

  6. Let’s talk about the characters • Shimamura • Komako • Yoko Can you think of any others?

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