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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 18-545 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- 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