Books / Reviews | ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES Aug 5, 2017
'The Lake': Yasunari Kawabata at his darkest
by T.C. Jones
Yasunari Kawabata is often seen in the West as one of the quintessential modern Japanese writers. His most famous novels are filled with tea ceremonies and geisha and his prose is a consummate example of mono no aware, the Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty ...