This is a short collection of stories by the Nobel Prize winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata who I have previously read and reviewed his novel The Master of Go and another collection of stories. These stories are curious, and a little forgettable, and maybe that’s in part because the opening novella is both disturbing and unsatisfying. It will ultimately probably not stand the test of time because the ideas explored in it are both a little played out, but also gauche in their presentation. An […]
A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, ‘the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.
House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata