House Of The Sleeping Beauties And Other Stories

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525434143
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories written by Yasunari Kawabata and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three surreal, erotically charged stories from Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. In the three long tales in this collection, Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. Piercing examinations of sexuality and human psychology—and works of remarkable subtlety and beauty—these stories showcase one of the twentieth century’s great writers—in any language—at his very best.

Author : Suzanne O'Sullivan
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1524748382
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sleeping Beauties written by Suzanne O'Sullivan and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall into a state that resembles sleep for months or years at a time. In Le Roy, a town in upstate New York, teenage girls develop involuntary twitches and seizures that spread like a conta­gion. In the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, employees experience headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises during the night. These are only a few of the many sus­pected culture-bound psychosomatic syndromes—specific sets of symptoms that exist in a particular culture or environment—that affect people throughout the world. In The Sleeping Beauties, Dr. Suzanne O’Sullivan—an award-winning Irish neurologist—investigates psychosomatic disorders, traveling the world to visit communi­ties suffering from these so-called mystery illnesses. From a derelict post-Soviet mining town in Kazakhstan to the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua to the heart of the María Mountains in Colombia, O’Sullivan records the remark­able stories of syndromes related to her by people from all walks of life. Riveting and often distressing, these case studies are recounted with compassion and humanity. In examining the complexity of psychogenic illness, O’Sullivan has written a book of both fascination and se­rious concern as these syndromes continue to proliferate around the globe.

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of the Sleeping Beauties written by Yasunari Kawabata and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories written by Yasunari Kawabata and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780436231230
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book House Of Sleeping Beauties written by Yasunari Kawabata and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780900608018
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House of the Sleeping Beauties written by Yasunari Kawabata and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Japan's first Nobel laureate for literature, three superb stories explore the interplay between erotic fantasy and reality in a loner's mind. Kawabata's fiction is noted for combining a traditional Japanese aesthetic with modernist, often surreal trends: his richly lyrical prose is imbued with a sense of loneliness and alienation. In these three tales, underlying the erotic fantasy is the protagonists' lack of connection with other people, and their memories of past loves in an empty sterile life. The title story, "House of the Sleeping Beauties," is about a man who visits a brothel where elderly men can spend a chaste but lecherous night with a drugged, unconscious virgin. As he admires the girl's beauty, he recalls his past womanizing, and reflects on the relentless course of old age. In "One Arm," a young girl removes her right arm and gives it to the narrator to take home for the night, a surreal seduction follows as he speaks to it, tries to allay its fears, caresses it and even replaces his own right arm with it. "Of Birds and Beasts" is about a man who lives alone, with a housemaid, preferring the company of the birds and dogs he keeps to human beings. But rather than living animals, these are beautiful objects which, although they give him pleasure, he treats with casual cruelty, in much the same way as he treated his previous lover, a dancer. Beautiful yet chilling, poetic yet subtly disturbing, these stories make compelling reading.

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Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rochelle Larkin
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 9781596792517
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleeping Beauty & Other Stories written by Rochelle Larkin and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of fourteen classic stories.

Author : Roy Starrs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134249012
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soundings in Time written by Roy Starrs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full length, and long overdue, study of Kawabata, Japans first Nobel laureate for literature and the most widely known for his novels Snow Country (1960) and Sound of the Mountain (1970).

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1887178945
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories written by Yasunari Kawabata and published by Catapult. This book was released on 1998-08-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature. Yasunari Kawabata is widely known for his innovative short stories, some called "palm-of-the-hand" stories short enough to fit into ones palm. This collection reflects Kawabata's keen perception, deceptive simplicity, and the deep melancholy that characterizes much of his work. The stories were written between 1923 and 1929, and many feature autobiographical events and themes that reflect the painful losses he experienced early in his life.