Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972):

Recommended Background Texts:

• Keene, Donald, Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era. (1984) PL 726.55 .K39 1984
  
• Kawabata Yasunari, Beauty and Sadness, trans. Howard Hibbett (1996) PL832.A9 U813 1996
  
• -----, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, trans. Lane Dunlop & J. Martin Holman (1988) PL832.A9 P35 1988
  
• -----, Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself, 1968 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, trans. Edward Seidensticker (1981) PL832.A9 J3 1981
  
• -----, The Izu Dancer and Other Stories, trans. Edward Seidensticker (1974) PL782.E8I97 1974
  
• -----, The Master of Go, trans. Edward Seidensticker (1972) PL832.A9 M3
  
• -----, The Sound of the Mountain, trans. Edward Seidensticker (1970) PL832.A9Y313 1996
  
• -----, House of the Sleeping Beauties & Other Stories, trans. Edward Seidensticker (1969) PL832.A9H68 1980
  
• -----, Thousand Cranes, trans. Edward Seidensticker (1959) PL832.A9 S413 1996
  
• -----, Snow Country, trans. Edward Seidensticker (1956) PL832.A9 Y813 1996
  
• Miyoshi, Masao, Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel (1996) PL747.55.M5 1996
  
• Pollack, David, Reading Against Culture: Ideology and Narrative in the Japanese Novel (1992) PL747.65 .P65 1992.
  
• Seidensticker, Edward, This Country, Japan (1979) (on order)

Audiovisual Materials:

• Film, Snow Country, directed by Shiro Toyoda. 1957. VHS videotape. B&W/English subtitles. Approx. 134 min. World Literature Library, Hitchcock Communication Arts Building (CA), Room 303

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