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Dandelions

Title
Dandelions / Yasunari Kawabata ; translated and with an afterword by Michael Emmerich.
Author
Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972
Publication
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.

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Additional Authors
Emmerich, Michael
Description
123 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions--exploring love and madness--is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in April, 1972. The book concerns Ineko's mother and Kuno, the young man who loves Ineko and wants to marry her. The two have left Ineko at the Ikuta Mental Hospital, which she has entered for treatment of a condition that might be called "seizures of body blindness." Although her vision as a whole is unaffected, she periodically becomes unable to see her lover Kuno's body: when this occurs, Ineko breaks down. Whether or not her condition actually constitutes madness is a topic of heated discussion between Kuno and Ineko's mother ... In this tantalizing book, Kawabata explores the incommunicability of desire as well as desire's relation to the urge to hide. With Dandelions, Kawabata carries the art of the novel, where he always suggested more than he stated, into mysterious new realms."--
Uniform Title
Tanpopo. English
Alternative Title
Tanpopo.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Fiction.
  • Psychological fiction.
Call Number
JFD 18-545
ISBN
  • 9780811224093
  • 0811224090
LCCN
2017014026
OCLC
975850811
Author
Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972, author.
Title
Dandelions / Yasunari Kawabata ; translated and with an afterword by Michael Emmerich.
Publisher
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Emmerich, Michael, translator.
Research Call Number
JFD 18-545
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