Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka in 1899. He graduated from the career of Japanese Literature from the University of Tokyo. Yukio Mishima was his pupil, as well as a great friend, with whom he maintained contact until his death. In 1972, four years after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, died in a strange way. His biographers and scholars seem to agree on suicide as the cause of his death, although his widow and other relatives never admitted such a possibility.
time ago I read by this author The beautiful and sad , which I liked a lot. So, even taking home too many outstanding reads, I could not avoid taking public library book. Some two hundred pages. I thought I would read a novel, but it is rather a long story Share issue with two stories of the author.
In House of Sleeping Beauties Kawabata tells a strange story. What seems a clear sign that estomagante satire turns into a bound from which scans the inevitable end of human existence, slow and cruel, that the author, very pessimistic, shown as a transfiguration of man in no man, something repellent, ugly, useless: an old man.
We exposed the attempt to delay the inevitable end through contact with the girl, even through illegitimate relationship. And we show the pathos of the human condition, the purpose of delaying death by memory, which is to live again what has already happened. Finally
death indeed is present. But death has the same face for all, without exception.
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