Snow Country

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Snow Country is a classic Japanese novel by Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata, renowned for its lyrical portrayal of a doomed love affair set against the stark beauty of a remote hot-spring town.

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instanceOf novel
adaptation Snow Country (1957 film) NERFINISHED
adaptationLanguage Japanese
adaptationType film
author Yasunari Kawabata NERFINISHED
authorNobelPrizeInLiteratureYear 1968
containsElement nature description
psychological introspection
countryOfOrigin Japan
criticalReception highly acclaimed
EnglishTitle Snow Country NERFINISHED
firstPublicationYear 1935
genre literary fiction
modernist literature
romantic fiction
hasEnglishTranslation yes
hasISBNForCommonEdition 9780679761044
hasNobelLaureateAuthor true
hasSubject geisha
influencedBy Japanese aesthetic concept of mono no aware
isConsideredClassic yes
isMajorWorkOf Yasunari Kawabata NERFINISHED
languageStyle sparse and poetic
literaryPeriod Shōwa period NERFINISHED
literarySignificance landmark of 20th-century Japanese literature
mainTheme class differences
doomed love affair
ephemeral beauty
isolation
motif geisha life
hot springs
snow
narrativePerspective third-person narration
narrativeStyle lyrical prose
notableCharacter Komako NERFINISHED
Shimamura NERFINISHED
Yoko NERFINISHED
originalLanguage Japanese
publicationForm serialized
publisherInBookForm Shinchōsha NERFINISHED
setting remote hot-spring town
settingCountry Japan NERFINISHED
structure revised and expanded from earlier serializations
targetAudience adult readers
timePeriodOfSetting early 20th century Japan

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Kawabata Yasunari notableWork Snow Country