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Title	:	Beauty and Sadness
Author	:	Yasunari Kawabata
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 206 pages
Published	:	January 30th 1996 by Vintage (first published 1964)
Categories	:	Cultural. Japan. Fiction. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Classics. Literature

Beauty and Sadness

Yasunari Kawabata

Paperback | Pages: 206 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 7657 Users | 677 Reviews

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Beauty and Sadness (Japanese: 美しさと哀しみと Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1964 novel by Japanese Nobel Prize winning author Yasunari Kawabata.

Opening on the train to Kyoto, the narrative, in characteristic Kawabata fashion, subtly brings up issues of tradition and modernity as it explores writer Oki Toshio's reunion with a young lover from his past, Otoko Ueno, who is now a famous artist and recluse. Ueno is now living with her protegée and a jealous lover, Keiko Sakami, and the unfolding relationships between Oki, Otoko, and Keiko form the plot of the novel. Keiko states several times that she will avenge Otoko for Oki's abandonment, and the story coalesces into a climactic ending.

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Original Title:	美しさと哀しみと [Utsukushisa to kanashimi to]
ISBN:	0679761055 (ISBN13: 9780679761051)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Toshio Oki, Otoko Ueno, Fumiko Oki, Keiko Sakami, Taichiro Oki
Setting:	Japan

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Beauty and Sadness is an understated, delicate story. It begins with the sad memories of Oki Toshio, an eminent writer - and then, gradually but fiercely, reveals how those long ago events have done damage to the lives of many. All is revealed in an uncomplicated style, and without overt judgement from the author. He lets the story speak for itself. Oki longs for a meeting with Ueno Otoko (now famous too, an artist) the woman whose youth he ruined, and to whom the past echoes with obligations

3.5/5starsVery beautiful and simplistic - exactly what i wanted out of a Japanese Lit story like this one, but more on the dull side in my personal opinion. Still appreciated it and thought it was pretty, but I'll be interested to see what this author's other works bring.

Alternative title: Never Marry a WriterYou shouldn't really. I make my money by my craft, and you shouldn't marry me. It's impossible not to incorporate bits of your life into your writing. And if, like the protagonist of Beauty and Sadness, you are a bit of a heel to begin with, it will be far worse. This is more of Kawabata facing down modern Japan and I'm guessing facing down his own relationship to his metier, and it's one of the better books of his that I've read.

Second Review: 3.75 starsSome weeks ago I came across a review mentioning this novel by Kawabata so I decided to read it to recapture what, I think, I had missed from the first reading. While reading the following nine chapters: Temple Bells, Early Spring, The Festival of the Full Moon, A Rainy Sky, A Stone Garden, The Lotus in the Flames, Strands of Black Hair, Summer Losses, and The Lake, I thought it would deserve a 4-star rating but I changed my mind at the last chapter so the rating minus

2.5 stars.The famed Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata wrote many novels which focused mostly on the beauty of Japanese traditional cultures, the scenery and the relationship between men and women, and his novels are often a 'hit or miss' for me.After enjoying his elegantly written novels such as The Old Capitol, Snow Country and Sleeping Beauties; Beauty and Sadness really feels like a miss to me.Once again, the backdrop is set in Koyto, though it's interesting to see how Mr. Kawabata

Another, my fourth, novel from Kawabata. But this one is very different from the other three. Beauty and Sadness is a novel of love and betrayal, vengeance and deceit. Unlike the other books, the story moves steadily towards an end that is not always apparent. Instead of one central character, Kawabata shifts the centre of attention over three characters. In the other three books, Snow Country, Thousand Cranes and The Sound of the Mountain, much of the 'action' was carried by description, by

I read my first Yasunari Kawabata book a couple of years back. It was called 'Snow Country'. I thought it was time to read my next Kawabata book now. I picked 'Beauty and Sadness'.In 'Beauty and Sadness', a middle aged writer in his fifties, who lives in Tokyo, decides to travel to Kyoto and spend the New Year Eve there. He wants to ring in the New Year Eve there by listening to the bells of the temples. He also has another agenda there. He hopes to meet his former lover who lives there. She is