About this title: The double nature of eros and love, the perennial themes in Kawabata's work is at the core of this novel. nowwhere else does he so clearly set out his preoccupation with the way sickness, decay and mortality are endlessly revealed at the heart of love's promise of immortality.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Books
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780425030660ISBN:0425030660
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679761051ISBN:0679761055
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Moderately pliable, virtually no edge wear, clean pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Edition: Reprint, 1991
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company; Tut Books, Tokyo
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9784805303948ISBN:4805303948
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 206 pp.; 19 cm. First published under title: Utsukushisa to kanashimi to. Translated from the Japanese. Good+. Previous owner's signature/flyleaf, otherwise tight & clean. Age toning. Nobel Prize winner. Scarce ed. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1996-01-01
ISBN-13:9780679761051ISBN:0679761055
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679761051ISBN:0679761055
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"Essentially a love story, but told in retrospect. The novel is very Japanese - there is a lot of conversation, and that is where you learn most about the characters. It's hard to pay attention to everything they say because they are often so odd - this may have to do with not only translation, but because of cultural differences."
"I enjoyed this more than Thousand Cranes right up to the ending which I thought problematic (look at it one way and it barely qualified for an episode of "Dallas"; although other possible interpretations might be more profound). Kawabata writes simply of love and the things that surround love, but in a way that reminds you of similar feelings or situations that you might have experienced -- his writing is like one of those songs that instantly and immediately revives the sweet or bittersweet memories of our lives."
"gw dapet ni buku dari Jalasutra..katanya suh terjemahan dari jalsut tuh jelek..tapi entah kenapa ga da yang janggal dalam bahasa yang disajikan dalam buku ni..kata2nya terasa masuk akal dan nyambungd ari kata per kata...
gw suka dengan karakter2nya khususnya keiko..dan gw suka penggambaran latar belakang kebudayaan dan lingkungan jepang yang begitu indah pada masa tahun 1960an gitu..banyak pengetahuan budaya yang bisa diambil dari buku ini..walalupun ada bagian yang bertemakan seks..tapi tidak disajikan secara rendahan..
btw ni bercerita tentang seorang murid wanita,Keiko yang belajar melukis dari gurunya,Otoko, dan berusaha untuk membalas dendam terhadap Oki..lelaki berkeluarga yang pernah membuat Otoko muda hamil, keguguran dan melajang hingga sekrang..Keiko yang cenderung memeiliki ketertarikan seksual terhadap gurunya mencoba untuk mendekati Oki serta anaknya,Taichiro..
endingnya tak disangka dan tak dinyana..terasa menggantung dan karena tipisnya jadi pengen cerita lebih lanjut..mantab.."
"This is a quick, easy read. Maybe. Well, it was for me. Reading it, into sleep, three afternoons in a row. And, waking up, later, covered in sweat. And ditto those same three nights. The chair I read in, you see, makes me sweat.
This is a beautiful book. And it's haunting. Especially Keiko who is the lotus in the flames. And the book for me is Lotus in Flames. All the characters are ruled (or defined anyways) by passion.
And they are, again and again, wrong about the other characters. They are constantly selfish. Making assumptions. Being wrong.
It's fascinating, really. And haunting, like I said.
Kawabata is such a clever writer.
But I'm giving this book four stars because I kept thinking of what I remember to be superior: his Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. That really glows in me.
Maybe when I go back to those stories they'll disappoint. Hell, that's almost definitely what's going to happen. Maybe I won't go back to them.
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