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Beauty and Sadness (Japanese: 美しさと哀しみと, Hepburn: Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1961–63 novel by Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel is narrated from the present and past perspective of the characters and how they differed from each other's point of view.
- Yasunari Kawabata
- 1964
Yasunari Kawabata, Howard S. Hibbett (Translator) 3.81. 13,116 ratings1,439 reviews. The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before.
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- 1964
- Yasunari Kawabata
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About Beauty and Sadness. The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover.
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With Beauty and Sorrow (美しさと哀しみと, Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1965 Japanese drama film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It is based on the novel Beauty and Sadness (1961–63) by Nobel Prize winning writer Yasunari Kawabata.
Sep 11, 2009 · Beauty and sadness. by. Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. Publication date. 1975. Publisher. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House. Collection. internetarchivebooks; americana; printdisabled.
Jan 1, 2011 · Beauty and Sadness is told by Oki Toshio, a famed Japanese novelist looks up his ex of 20 years past (Yomiura, a short story from the First Snow on Fuji collection, invokes a visit to the 'novelist' of a vaguely remembered acquaintance from 30 years ago to surreal result) on the pretense of hearing the New Years temple bells in her ...
- Yasunari Kawabata
Apr 29, 2017 · Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's "Beauty and Sadness" is a sparse and elegant dissection of the messiest human emotions.
