When I received novel Desa Salji (Snow Country) a novel written by Yasunari Kawabata and translated by Ainon Abu Bakar from my class rep, I cannot help but to think, 'Oh no, another boring novel!'. It doesn't mean that I hate reading Malay novel. I love to read Faisal Tehrani's what. Maybe it's a matter of my laziness that made me think so. Or maybe because I've set my mind before that reading educational novel is boring.
I forced myself to read this novel (teruk nau bunyinya). It's kinda weird that I didn't notice when actually I started to realize that this novel is astonishingly engaging!!
Snow Country (雪国 Yukiguni)
Yasunari Kawabata was the foremost writer in Japan. I felt heart turning feeling when reading Desa Salji. His writing swept me off my feet. A story full of sorrow. I can almost feel the sombre atmosphere, that Kawabata tried to build in this story. The solemn faces of the geishas, the environment of the snow country and its people, the loneliness of each soul, the good byes and the dreams that seem hard to touch.
Yasunari Kawabata
My teacher agreed that his writing was influenced by his tragic real life. He was orphaned when he was 4, his grandmother died when he was 7, his sister died when he was 11 and he lost his grandfather at age 15. He then lived with his mother's family.
He was a graduate from Tokyo Imperial University and had awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. He died from gas poisoning. Rumors said that he poisoned himself but some close associates believed that it was an accident. The theory of killing himself was related with his best friend, Yukio Mishima's suicide. *Mishima was also a famous writer*
Check out this video on YouTube. Snow Country.
雪国 (Yukiguni).
OK so long!
I forced myself to read this novel (teruk nau bunyinya). It's kinda weird that I didn't notice when actually I started to realize that this novel is astonishingly engaging!!
Snow Country (雪国 Yukiguni)Yasunari Kawabata was the foremost writer in Japan. I felt heart turning feeling when reading Desa Salji. His writing swept me off my feet. A story full of sorrow. I can almost feel the sombre atmosphere, that Kawabata tried to build in this story. The solemn faces of the geishas, the environment of the snow country and its people, the loneliness of each soul, the good byes and the dreams that seem hard to touch.
Yasunari Kawabata
My teacher agreed that his writing was influenced by his tragic real life. He was orphaned when he was 4, his grandmother died when he was 7, his sister died when he was 11 and he lost his grandfather at age 15. He then lived with his mother's family.
He was a graduate from Tokyo Imperial University and had awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. He died from gas poisoning. Rumors said that he poisoned himself but some close associates believed that it was an accident. The theory of killing himself was related with his best friend, Yukio Mishima's suicide. *Mishima was also a famous writer*
Check out this video on YouTube. Snow Country.
雪国 (Yukiguni).
OK so long!
