Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.
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About Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata was a 19th-century Japanese novelist. Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Beauty — Appreciating aesthetics, grace, and the sublime