Quotes About Kawabata

They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.

But whether the death is that of a tubercular husband in "The Moon on the Water," a mystical figure such as Y?ko in Snow Country, or the drugged girl lying beside an old man in House of the Sleeping Beauties, death always has richly poetic implications in Kawabata's work, in contrast to the meticulously clinical deteriorations in Tanizaki's novels and the murderous destruction in Mishima's.

Hay por aquí algún demonio intentando reírse de mi?

Un demonio vendrá a buscarte -dijo, arrimándose a la notable piel de la muchacha.

We were watching a battle, but it took clean forms.

The man was clearly ill, however, and illness shortens the distance between a man and a woman.