Snow Country Tales
Author | : Bokushi Suzuki |
Publisher | : Weatherhill, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bokushi Suzuki |
Publisher | : Weatherhill, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Giles Murray |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-11-08 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1568365411 |
Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima and Junichiro Tanizaki are all giants of world literature. It stands to reason that students of Japanese would long to read them in their original language. Exploring Japanese Literature enables them to do just that. Featuring one each of these writers’ most characteristic stories—plus linguistic support in the form of a built-in dictionary—the book picks up where the author’s previous bestselling text, Breaking into Japanese Literature, left off. The poignancy of romance between a wealthy Tokyoite and a provincial geisha in Yasunari Kawabata’s "Snow Country"; the ecstatic frenzy of a couple committing ritual suicide in Mishima’s "Patriotism"; the amoral antics of a playboy aesthete trying to fire up his flagging zest for life in Tanizaki’s "The Secret" — Exploring Japanese Literature is a reader’s entrée into the uniquely rich and exotic world of modern Japanese fiction. On each two-page spread, the original Japanese is printed in large type on the left-hand page, with the corresponding English translation on the right and the dictionary running along the bottoms of both. Everything the student needs to read the stories and understand them is right there. To enrich students’ experience even further, Exploring Japanese Literature also features biographies of the three novelists, mini-prefaces that set the scene for the individual stories, and evocative illustrations. In addition, there is a dedicated website at www.speaking-japanese.com where learners have the chance to put forward their own interpretations of the Japanese and engage in debate with the author, the editor and, of course, other readers of the book. Exploring Japanese Literature is recommended for upper-intermediate and advanced level students.
Author | : Yasunari Kawabata |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780399505256 |
The power of love and illusion shape the lives of a young geisha and a rich Tokyo dilettante
Author | : Yasunari Kawabata |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2006-11-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374530491 |
Collection of short stories written over the entire span of Kawabata's career. These stories, he felt, represented the essence of his art and reflect his abiding interest in the miniature, the wisp of plot reduced to the essential. --Adapted from publisher description.
Author | : Kristine Zeigler |
Publisher | : Kristine Zeigler |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781732904408 |
Cover This Country Like Snow is a collection of ten short stories spanning time and terrain in one of the world's most majestic landscapes, the Owens Valley, epicenter of water wars waged in California since the 19th century.
Author | : Georges Simenon |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011-11-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590175581 |
Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get by; Frank takes it easy in his mother’s whorehouse, which caters to members of the occupying forces. But Frank is restless. He is a pimp, a thug, a petty thief, and, as Dirty Snow opens, he has just killed his first man. Through the unrelenting darkness and cold of an endless winter, Frank will pursue abjection until at last there is nowhere to go. Hans Koning has described Dirty Snow as “one of the very few novels to come out of German-occupied France that gets it exactly right.” In a study of the criminal mind that is comparable to Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me, Simenon maps a no man’s land of the spirit in which human nature is driven to destruction—and redemption, perhaps, as well—by forces beyond its control.
Author | : Marie Campbell |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000-02-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780820321868 |
Assembled here are seventy-eight stories from six of the "ballad-singingest, tale-tellingest" residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European traditions from German fairy tales to Irish hero stories to Greek myths, the tales had been handed down through generations of telling before Marie Campbell collected them in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Readers will recognize the story of Snow White in "A Stepchild That Was Treated Mighty Bad," while "Three Shirts and a Golden Finger Ring" recalls the fairy tale of the Seven Swans. "The Fellow That Married A Dozen Times" is a lively rendition of "Bluebeard." As the narrators cautioned Marie Campbell again and again, "Tale-telling is nigh about faded out in the mountain country," but Tales from the Cloud Walking Country offers a lasting record of history, cultural heritage, language, and good old-fashioned fun.
Author | : Yasunari Kawabata |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2000-10-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1582431051 |
The stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not–knowing. Kawabata lets us slide into the lives of people who have been shattered by war, loss, and longing. These stories are beautiful and melancholy, filled with Kawabata's unerring vision of human psychology. First Snow on Fuji was originally published in Japan in 1958, ten years before Kawabata received the Nobel Prize. Kawabata selected the stories for this collection himself, and the result is a stunning assembly of disparate moods and genres. This new edition is the first to be published in English.
Author | : Kseniya Melnik |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2014-05-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1627790071 |
Residents of a thriving port town in Russia's Far East are shaped by regional history and lore throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, from a local woman who considers an Italian footballer's proposition to a former Soviet boss' memories about a thorny friendship.
Author | : Hank Snow |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
With remarkable candor, Country Music Hall of Famer Hank Snow traces his life from humble beginning in Canada to worldwide acclaim as one of country's greatest and most legendary stars. Chock-full of fascinating revelations, The Hank Snow Story reveals the inner workings of the music industry, how Snow helped launch the career of Elvis Presley, and more.