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Thousand-winged crane

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"Fathers ate sour grapes, and the children's teeth splintered" is a biblical quote that surprisingly captures the "upper", "plot" layer of Yasunari Kawabata's novel The Thousand-Winged Crane. The story of a nervous, reflective young man Kikuji, to whom one of his late father's mistresses is obsessively trying to replace his mother and match him with a bride, the other is having an affair with him for some reason, and he falls in love with her daughter, who in turn has complex and ambiguous feelings for him, would be a comedy in the performance of a Western author, But Kawabata was Japanese, and so his novel, imbued with national symbolism (in which the cross-cutting images of the crane and the tea ceremony are only the most obvious) and numerous allusions and references to masterpieces of the Heian and samurai eras, was and remains one of the most brilliant, aristocratically refined and ambiguous works of the past century.
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