美しさと哀しみと

Beauty and Sadness

Author

Yasunari Kawabata

Language

Japanese

Year

1964

Country

Japan

Genre

Novel

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Beauty and Sadness 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. A novel that provokes the mind and examines the relationship between life events, it is considered one of Kawabata's best works, though it has on occasion been criticised for its depictions of female homosexuality.