Yasunari Kawabata

Tyve år er gået siden hittebarnet Chieko i kirsebærblomsternes tid blev fundet af Takichiro og hans kone Shige. Efter en øjensynlig lykkelig opvækst i den gamle kejserby blandt vævere og tekstilgrosserere opdager Chieko ved et tilfælde, at hun har en søster i kryptomerialandsbyen oppe i bjergene. Og hun begynder at tvivle på sin sande identitet. Langsomt rulles Chieko ind i et stille drama med de to søstre, der knap kan skelnes fra hinanden, på den ene side, og unge bejlere på den anden. Kyoto. Den gamle kejserby var blandt de fremhævede værker, da Yasunari Kawabata i 1968 modtog Nobelprisen i Litteratur for sin evne til at skildre den japanske ånd og kultur. Om Snelandet af samme forfatter skrev pressen: ”Intet mindre end et hovedværk i den japanske litteratur.” - Information ”Snelandet er et mesterværk.” - Litteratursiden ”En ætsende smuk og ædende ond kærlighedshistorie.” - Jyllands-Posten

Ved en teceremoni møder den unge Kikuji Mitani sin afdøde fars elskerinde, enkefru Ota. Efter ceremonien opsøger hun ham, og der opstår en forbindelse imellem de to. Det bliver starten på et skæbnesvangert forløb, som også fru Otas datter, Fumiko, hvirvles ind i. I kulissen står den aldrende telærerinde Chikako Kurimoto. Hun har planer for Kikuji og søger hensynsløst at føre disse ud i livet. Tusind traner er et intenst kammerspil om længsel, begær og skam og om fortidens magt over nutiden. Romanen regnes for et af Kawabatas hovedværker og blev særligt fremhævet, da han blev tildelt Nobelprisen i 1968.

Jasunari Kavabata nazyval opublikovannyj v 1951 godu "Mejdzin" svoim luchshim proizvedeniem. V osnovu knigi leglo realnoe sobytie - rastjanuvshajasja na polgoda "proschalnaja partija" velikogo mejdzina Khonimbo Sjusaja - mastera igry v go - protiv podajuschego nadezhdy molodogo opponenta. Lakonichnaja i elegantnaja "Snezhnaja strana" po pravu schitaetsja klassikoj japonskoj literatury i vkhodit v chislo trekh rabot, osobo vydelennykh pri vruchenii Kavabate Nobelevskoj premii po literature v 1968 godu.

Libro in dito de Yasunari Kawabata, el legendario Nobel japon s. El presente libro contiene diez relatos con historias entrelazadas, a veces porque los protagonistas comparten el mismo nombre, otras, por su car cter sutilmente sobrenatural, y casi siempre porque tienen el amor --y el dolor que nace de l-- como tema central. In dito hasta ahora en castellano, Seix Barral lo presenta en esta oportunidad en traducci n directa del japon s. Cada uno de estos relatos fue primero publicado en revistas literarias entre 1951 y 1956, a os en los que la pobreza y la desolaci n de un Jap n en ruinas traumatizaron a una generaci n abatida por la derrota en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Este es el contexto hist rico en el que el autor desarrolla estas historias. En ellas, como en muchas de sus obras posteriores, la guerra y la rendici n de Jap n marcan un antes y un despu s en la vida de los personajes y es un hecho hist rico que est omnipresente como paisaje de fondo." El relato que abre este libro, La luna en el agua, es una obra de arte en s misma y puede que contenga lo mejor y m s representativo de Kawabata: lo extraordinario en lo ordinario, la dicotom a entre realidad e ilusi n, la enfermedad como una visi n peculiar del mundo, la locura, la belleza sutil de los detalles que podr an pasar f cilmente inadvertidos, el amor de una mujer." --Tana OshimaENGLISH DESCRIPTIONAn unpublished book by Yasunari Kawabata, the legendary Japanese Nobel laureate. This book contains ten stories with interconnected narratives, sometimes because the protagonists share the same name, other times due to their subtly supernatural nature, and almost always because they revolve around love--and the pain that stems from it--as a central theme. Previously unpublished in Spanish, Seix Barral now presents it in this edition with a direct translation from Japanese. Each of these stories was first published in literary magazines between 1951 and 1956, years during which the poverty and desolation of a war-torn Japan traumatized a generation burdened by the defeat in World War II. This is the historical context in which the author sets these narratives. In them, as in many of his later works, the war and Japan's surrender mark a before and after in the characters' lives, serving as an ever-present backdrop." The opening story in this book, The Moon in the Water, is a masterpiece in itself and might encapsulate the best and most representative qualities of Kawabata: the extraordinary in the ordinary, the dichotomy between reality and illusion, illness as a peculiar worldview, madness, the subtle beauty of details that might easily go unnoticed, the love of a woman." --Tana Oshima

Ganador del Premio Nobel en 1968. Impulsado por la nostalgia, Oki Toshio, un escritor casado, decide viajar a Kioto para o r las campanas del templo en el A o Nuevo. Pero adem s quiere ver a Otoko, antigua amante a la que hab a humillado. Todav a hermosa, Otoko, ahora pintora, vive con su protegida Keiko, una joven amoral, sensual y apasionada de apenas veinte a os. Y lo que comienza como un reencuentro sentimental entre el maduro Oki y la discreta Otoko se convertir en un cruel drama de amor y destrucci n. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1968. Driven by nostalgia, Oki Toshio, a married writer, decides to travel to Kyoto to hear the temple bells ring in the New Year. But he also wants to see Otoko, a former lover whom he once humiliated. Still beautiful, Otoko, now a painter, lives with her prot g Keiko, a young, amoral, sensual, and passionate woman barely twenty years old. And what begins as a sentimental reunion between the mature Oki and the reserved Otoko will turn into a cruel drama of love and destruction.

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksKikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress’ rival and successor is also present. He falls for her, with devastating consequences. By 1949 Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, felt that the tradition of the tea ceremony had been degraded. In this delicate novella he uses the ceremony as a powerful vehicle for loneliness, yearning and loss of history.

Pozhiloj biznesmen Singo Ogata blizok k vykhodu na pensiju. Ego vse bolshe bespokojat uchastivshiesja smerti sverstnikov, bystrotechnost chelovecheskoj zhizni i naprjazhennye otnoshenija v sobstvennoj seme - doch ukhodit ot muzha i vozvraschaetsja v otchij dom s dvumja malenkimi detmi, a syn ne tajas izmenjaet sobstvennoj zhene. I lish nevestka Kikuko, tikhaja, milaja i vernaja zhenschina, khot kak-to skrashivaet budni starika." Ston gory" - nespeshnoe i melankholichnoe proizvedenie, polnoe filosofskikh razmyshlenij i tonkikh nabljudenij za poslevoennoj Japoniej.

Japonija, 30-e gody XX veka. Simamura edet na poezde po snezhnomu gornomu kraju otdokhnut na gorjachie istochniki k Komako, kotoruju, po ego mneniju, on ljubit. Devushka schitaet kazhdyj den s momenta proshloj vstrechi i v narushenie vsekh pravil vljubljaetsja v Simamuru, khotja i znaet, chto ee ljubov obrechena... Lakonichnaja i elegantnaja "Snezhnaja strana" po pravu schitaetsja klassikoj japonskoj literatury i vkhodit v chislo trekh rabot, osobo vydelennykh pri vruchenii Kavabate Nobelevskoj premii.

‘In this masterpiece Kawabata, his brush dipped in silver, renders all the excruciating anguish and beauty of post-war Japan’ Edmund WhiteWith the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, while also experiencing love for the first time. While Momoko, their father's first child - haunted by the loss of her kamikaze boyfriend and their final, disturbing days together - seeks comfort in a series of unhealthy romances. And both sisters find themselves unable to outrun the legacies of their late mothers. A thoughtful, probing novel about the enduring traumas of war, the unbreakable bonds of family and the inescapability of the past, The Rainbow is a searing, melancholy work from one of Japan's greatest writers. Translated by Haydn Trowell

Jasunari Kavabata nazyval opublikovannyj v 1951 godu "Mejdzin" svoim luchshim proizvedeniem. V osnovu knigi leglo realnoe sobytie - rastjanuvshajasja na polgoda "proschalnaja partija" velikogo mejdzina Khonimbo Sjusaja - mastera igry v go - protiv podajuschego nadezhdy molodogo opponenta. O khode partii pishet zhurnalist, v kotorom ugadyvaetsja sam Kavabata, kotoryj dejstvitelno vel reportazhi ob igre dlja gazety "Tokio Niti-niti simbun". On nabljudaet za tem, kak menjajutsja mesta provedenija partii, kak kazhdyj sledujuschij khod zanimaet vse bolshe vremeni, kak nachinaet sdavat zdorove pozhilogo mastera, kak molodost postepenno beret verkh nad opytom, a vekovye traditsii ustupajut mesto nauchnomu raschetu i pragmatizmu. Perevod s japonskogo Anny Slaschevoj, pod nauchnoj redaktsiej Vadima Filippova, mastera sporta po go, 4-j dan Rossijskoj federatsii go, i Tatjany Zborovskoj, prodjusera shkoly Vadima Filippova.

Japonija, 30-e gody XX veka. Simamura edet na poezde po snezhnomu gornomu kraju otdokhnut na gorjachie istochniki k Komako, kotoruju, po ego mneniju, on ljubit. Devushka schitaet kazhdyj den s momenta proshloj vstrechi i v narushenie vsekh pravil vljubljaetsja v Simamuru, khotja i znaet, chto ee ljubov obrechena... Lakonichnaja i elegantnaja "Snezhnaja strana" po pravu schitaetsja klassikoj japonskoj literatury i vkhodit v chislo trekh rabot, osobo vydelennykh pri vruchenii Kavabate Nobelevskoj premii.

"Tysjachekrylyj zhuravl" - istorija nervnogo junoshi, kotoryj zaputalsja v sebe i plyvet po techeniju zhizni. Roman o bezotvetnoj ljubvi i chuvstve poteri posle smerti blizkogo cheloveka." Ston gory" - nespeshnoe povestvovanie, polnoe filosofskikh razmyshlenij o starenii i prozhitoj zhizni, krasochnykh zarisovok prirody i podrobnykh opisanij byta poslevoennoj Japonii.

Pered vami trete, ispravlennoe i dopolnennoe izdanie "Rasskazov na ladoni" znamenitogo japonskogo pisatelja, laureata Nobelevskoj premii Kavabata Jasunari (1899-1972). Kavabata pisal etu svoju knigu korotkikh rasskazov vsju zhizn, dobavljaja v nee novye teksty, menjaja ikh mestami, a byvalo i vybrasyval iz knigi to, chto kazalos emu nepodkhodjaschim dlja novogo sbornika. Mnogochislennye izdanija otlichalis drug ot druga sostavom, no vykhodili pod odnim i tem zhe nazvaniem - "Rasskazy na ladoni". Kavabata govoril, chto eta kniga - samoe ljubimoe ego detische. Tonchajshee ponimanie togo, kak ustroen chelovek, rozhdennyj japonskoj kulturoj, nashlo ne tolko mezhdunarodnoe priznanie. V Japonii pisatelju bylo prisvoeno zvanie "cheloveka-sokrovischa". Shedevry Kavabata pozvolili vsemu miru oschutit, chto eto znachit - roditsja japontsem.

"Ottsy eli kislyj vinograd, a u detej na zubakh oskomina" - biblejskaja tsitata, udivitelno tochno peredajuschaja "verkhnij", "sjuzhetnyj" sloj romana Jasunari Kavabaty "Tysjachekrylyj zhuravl". Istorija o nervnom, refleksirujuschem molodom cheloveke Kikudzi, kotoromu odna iz ljubovnits pokojnogo ottsa navjazchivo pytaetsja zamenit mat i sosvatat nevestu, drugaja zachem-to zavodit s nim roman, a on vljubljaetsja v ee doch, ispytyvajuschuju, v svoju ochered, k nemu slozhnye i neodnoznachnye chuvstva, v ispolnenii zapadnogo avtora izrjadno otdavala by komediej, no Kavabata byl japontsem, a potomu ego pronizannyj natsionalnoj simvolikoj (v kotoroj skvoznye obrazy zhuravlja i chajnoj tseremonii lish naibolee ochevidny) i mnogochislennymi alljuzijami i otsylkami k shedevram khejanskoj i samurajskoj epokhi roman byl i ostaetsja odnim iz samykh blestjaschikh, aristokraticheski izyskannykh i neodnoznachnykh proizvedenij proshedshego stoletija. Perevodchik: Rakhim Z.

‘In this masterpiece Kawabata, his brush dipped in silver, renders all the excruciating anguish and beauty of post-war Japan’ Edmund WhiteWith the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, while also experiencing love for the first time. While Momoko, their father's first child - haunted by the loss of her kamikaze boyfriend and their final, disturbing days together - seeks comfort in a series of unhealthy romances. And both sisters find themselves unable to outrun the legacies of their late mothers. A thoughtful, probing novel about the enduring traumas of war, the unbreakable bonds of family and the inescapability of the past, The Rainbow is a searing, melancholy work from one of Japan's greatest writers. Translated by Haydn Trowell

Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country. With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters--born to the same father but different mothers--struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, while also experiencing love for the first time. While Momoko, their father's first child--haunted by the loss of her kamikaze boyfriend and their final, disturbing days together--seeks comfort in a series of unhealthy romances. And both sisters find themselves unable to outrun the legacies of their late mothers. A thoughtful, probing novel about the enduring traumas of war, the unbreakable bonds of family, and the inescapability of the past, The Rainbow is a searing, melancholy work from one of Japan's greatest writers. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.

Den japanske nobelpristager Yasunari Kawabatas sene mesterværk om alderdom, begær og moral. En mørk aften ankommer den gamle mand Eguchi til et ensomt beliggende hus for at opleve en hemmelig og forbudt nydelse. I huset kan man mod betaling få lov at sove ved siden af en nøgen ung pige. Pigerne er ”lagt til at sove” med et stærkt sovemiddel og kan ikke vækkes, og det er ikke tilladt at forgribe sig på dem. Huset har tillid til kunderne, for kun gamle mænd, der har mistet deres seksuelle formåen, har adgang. Bogen følger gamle Eguchi gennem dette og flere intense natlige besøg – hver gang hos en ny pige – hvor han gennemgår et væld af følelser, tanker, drømme og erindringer. Kawabata fører med sin uovertrufne prosa læseren dybt ind i dette menneskes indre liv og maner den besynderlige og problematiske situation frem, så man nærmest føler, at man er der selv. YASUNARI KAWABATA (1899-1972) er en af det 20. århundredes største japanske forfattere på linje med for eksempel Yukio Mishima. I 1968 modtog han, som den første japanske forfatter nogensinde, Nobelprisen i litteratur.

Med regnbågen som sällskap av Yasunari Kawabata i svensk översättning från japanska av Lars VargöHandlingen utspelar sig strax efter Andra Världskriget kriget och tar upp känsliga ämnen som otrohet, utomäktenskapliga barn och abort – och inte minst hur människorna lever i den tidens kulturella brytningstid i Japan. En arkitekt och hans två äldsta döttrar bor i Tokyo, men handlingen förläggs i huvudsak i den gamla kejserliga huvudstaden Kyoto, en stad som hade en särskild attraktionskraft på författaren. 1968 tilldelats Kawabata nobelpriset i litteratur, ”för hans berättarkonst, som med fin känsla uttrycker japanskt väsen i dess egenart”. Romanen förmedlar värdefulla insikter för den intresserade. Läs mer på www.fripress.se