Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata - Book Discussion

Hi! Cheers for watching. Stay tuned for more Japanese literature videos in the coming months! For the article I talked about in the video + further reading look below.
Sources:
A Rereading of "Snow Country" from Komako's Point of View - Tajima Yoko, Donna George Storey www.jstor.org/stable/42772051
Kawabata and His "Snow Country" - James T. Araki www.jstor.org/stable/23737717
Kawabata's Lyrical Mode in Snow Country - Anthony V. Liman www.jstor.org/stable/2383649
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[@gableye5610]

fun fact bout the leeches: in Polish translation, the translator informs the reader in the introduction that the Japanese don't view the leeches as the West does. so "blood sucking creatures" isn't what first comes into their minds when they think about leeches
thought it would be helpful bc I saw many various people especially like the leeches metaphor

[@booklook2784]

Just finished this book. If I had been more attentive to it and read it in a short period of time, I probs would have understood it a bit more. I spread it out over a month, and I feel like I lost some of the flow and feeling due to that. Admittedly, i had some difficulty understanding the relational dynamics between the characters. I couldn't quite figure out if Komako and Yoko's positions in society were considered shameful or not. Moreover, I thought Shimamura's relations to the two were fairly weird, but I ultimately felt like he was more of an enigma. I feel like I only saw him through the periphery, which is weird since the whole novel is basically his mind. I don't think I would have been able draw out these analyses regarding the hollow relations based on my own reading.
However, I did find the imagery to be beautiful, even if the relational dynamics, cultural commentary, and philosophy of the book ended up being over my head.

[@candletabletop154]

amazing video and so lovely to see your passion for literature. you made me see more deeply into a text i was initially unimpressed by.

[@saskiasaunders6646]

A gorgeous video! So informative and humorous. Thank you! If you haven't already, try reading 'The Izu Dancer'! It's moving and heartbreaking, and inspired my own trip to Izu ^-^

[@WhereintheworldisLeahJane]

You didn't need that disclaimer! Loved this video. I hope you'll continue.

[@eddiecational]

Thank you so much :) (and thanks for watching!) Definitely planning to continue, just trying to find the time to make the next video now!

[@WhereintheworldisLeahJane]

Yay! Subscribed.
P.S. love the pun in your name!

[@scratchedbycats]

Looking forward to the continuation of the series, books are great conversation starters, I like to see other peoples interpretation of famous writings, what awed me about this particular masterpiece, was not the action, but rather the inaction, don't get me wrong I'm in for a good love story, but what is truly amazing it's hidden in plain sight, in the tittle "Snow Country", the scenery is amazing, the snow, the cold is omnipresent, nature itself, the descriptions are so vivid that you become another "guest", and they are everywhere, idk it easily slips mind, whyle involved in the plot, but almost after every few lines of dialogue, there is a description of the wild settings, it's all there, from the way the river comes down the mountain to the "little" death of a moth... Amazing, I've never seen, read a better documentary about rural mountainside Japan

[@brandondickson5635]

You just made me ace my reading test 😂 In all seriousness you made me understand this masterpiece a lot more, thank you young man !

[@ateto218]

Thank you so much. This helped me for my school essay and you have a really in interpretation.

[@ashishmanohar8369]

Why did you stopped making videos?? YOU ARE DOING GREAT

[@eliheaton139]

Awesome! Keep it up dude.

[@scratchedbycats]

After you finish this series, you should definitely do a series about great western books that take place in Japan, the usual suspects should be Dreaming Pacinco by Issac Adamson or Memoirs of a Geisha by Artur Golden or even Shogun by James Clavel, you being a westerner in Japan have a great opportunity to see both sides and see how close or how far the books really are.....

[@Rainierbooks]

Thanks for a very good video!! Kawabata was a mysterium and I realized that I have to do some background reading in order to understand something at least. Yes, Shimamura is an asshole. How many Japanese family fathers left their families for some geisha fun in the 1950's. Ah, I need to see Yinzawa. I was only in Takayama two years ago not knowing that I would read Kawabata....

[@hanakohiruma7137]

Love this ♥️♥️♥️

[@lascaux4497]

15:37

[@saveriannathan1415]

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[@CallumFergy]

this good shit

[@村-e3u]

Oh Niigata ！

[@OneWanAndHisDog]

Geisha not gaisha

[@yukofrost1879]

It’s geisha, not gaisha.

[@goose2724]

First

[@eddiecational]

come to Japan