Yasunari Kawabata is a famous modern Japanese novelist and the first Nobel Prize in Literature winner in Japan.
1899 June 14, Kawabata Yasunari was born in Osaka, Japan. His childhood was extremely miserable. He lost his father at the age of two and his mother at the age of three. The death of his parents had a great influence on him. He once wrote in the article "Letter to Parents": "What deeply entered my young mind was the fear of death." After that, she was adopted by her grandparents. However, extremely unfortunate things followed. At the age of 7, grandma died; 10 years old, the only sister died; /kloc-When I was 0/5 years old, my last relative, my grandfather, also passed away. Extreme loneliness and misfortune are the main reasons for Kawabata Yasunari's withdrawn personality and the important source of his tragic style.
Kawabata Yasunari was born lonely, but at the same time, God gave him a sentimental heart, and his love for literature was revealed from an early age. When he was a child, he liked reading very much. After entering middle school, he became more sensitive to literary works and devoted more enthusiasm. He edited his new poems, articles and letters into Gu Tangji and actively contributed them. Kawabata Yasunari was admitted to the English Department of Tokyo No.1 University. 1920 entered the English Department of Tokyo University and then transferred to the Chinese Department. During this period, he contacted a large number of outstanding works at home and abroad, and made a serious study of Dostoevsky and Chekhov in Russia, Shiga Naoya and Ryunosuke Akutagawa in Japan, which laid a solid foundation for his future literary career.
After graduating from college, Chuan Rui decided to become a professional writer. Together with his colleagues, he founded a series of literary magazines and carried out beneficial exploration and practice. What is commendable is that during the period when Japanese militaristic forces were rampant in 1930s, Yasunari Kawabata, as a rational writer, maintained a detached attitude, and did not enthusiastically devote himself to advocating "jihad" and going to war, but lived a semi-secluded life most of the time.
After the defeat of Japan, Yasunari Kawabata was dissatisfied and disappointed with the reality, and his works reflected his ideological foundation. His creative achievements became more and more abundant, which won him many titles and honors until Nobel Prize in Literature. However, with the accumulation of high reputation, Kawabata Yasunari gradually felt great pressure and there was a creative crisis. Coupled with the influence of nihilism in his later years, his life is like a candle in the wind. 1April 6, 972, Yasunari Kawabata committed suicide with a gas pipe in his studio at the age of 72.
Kawabata Yasunari's life is rich in creation, leaving behind more than 100 novels, novellas and short stories, as well as many essays, essays, speeches, comments and poems. His works reflect the combination of modernist techniques and traditional Japanese aesthetic tastes, and the overall style of his works is beautiful, smooth and novel.
Yasunari Kawabata launched the New Sensation Movement in the mid-1920s. At one time, he simply imitated expressionism, Dadaism and other western modernist techniques, strongly emphasized subjective feelings and enthusiastically pursued novel forms. In 1930s, he was once again attracted by Joyce's new psychology and stream of consciousness. Later, I felt that this road was impassable, so I decided to find another way-to combine Japanese literary tradition with new psychology and stream of consciousness to write such a good work as Snow Country. As a result, Kawabata Yasunari has formed his own unique characteristics, namely, subtle psychological description, touching artistic conception description, free and flexible structural arrangement, simple and implicit language expression, and sad and sad article sentiment.
Snow Country is a masterpiece created by Yasunari Kawabata in 15, but it is a novella, which shows his meticulous attitude. The novel tells the story of Tokyo dance art researcher Shimamura's three trips to Snow Country to associate with Komako. Shimamura met Komako, a geisha, and fell in love, and was attracted by Ye Zi, a girl who met by chance. Shimamura himself is a weak scholar whose thoughts are full of nothingness and sentimental sentiment, and he can't help Komako's life experience, so he has to interrupt the communication with Komako. Ye Zi had a lover who died in a fire after her lover died of illness. The serious and strong-willed foal pursues pure love, but her poor identity and situation distort her feelings. Her love has both innocence and deformity. The creative method and artistic expression of Snow Country fully embodies Kawabata Yasunari's creative characteristics. He believes that beauty and sadness are complementary and inseparable. Therefore, he always linked beauty with sadness, forming a unique style of beauty and sadness, beauty and sadness, beauty because of sadness, and sadness because of beauty. It is lyrical and infectious, so it is known as "the peak of lyrical literature in the history of modern literature".
In addition, Kawabata Yasunari's other works, such as Ancient Capital, Thousand Feathers Crane and Dancer of Izu, are also worth pondering. Japan's four seasons scenery, humanistic customs and cultural interests, such as bright pictures, are displayed one by one. It can be called Japanese style painting series. In these works, the author expresses his understanding of society and life, his sympathy for the sufferings of the lower classes, and his pursuit of love and art.