Première neige sur le Mont Fuji - Yasunari Kawabata

First snow on Mount Fuji brings together six unreleased novels of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yasunari Kawabata. Here we find the poetic and sensual inspiration that characterizes the masterpieces of the author of Sleeping Beauty.It evokes a couple separated by war, gathered years later at the foot of Mount Fuji, friendship between two writers, one is condemned to silence, or the melancholy of a late autumn in Tokyo, it is by subtle touches and with a consummate art of the image that Kawabata sketches, like a painter, portraits and feelings, dreams and reveries.Written between 1952 and 1960, assembled and translated by Cécile Sakai, a specialist in the work of Kawabata, each of these novels express the literary palette of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.ISBN 9782226259820