House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata Review Plus Win or Buy Leather Covered Book

[@LianaBuzea]

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[@livingandreading1159]

Thank you, I am glad to hear that.

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[@livingandreading1159]

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[@WhitneyDahlin]

Commenting again for the interaction. I am a younger woman and I feel like I was so interested in the woman's point of view we never got. I desperately wanted to hear the stories from their point of view. I did really enjoy this book. I absolutely loved the concept. I thought it was so interesting and I completely agree when you said it was a vampiric need to sleep next to these women to steal their youth. And it freaked me out (speaking of the title story) how often he thought about murdering these women! Not because he even wanted to hurt them, just because he could theoretically do so and that made him think about harming them in graphic detail . To me this story was definitely the author's way of dealing with aging and nostalgia and the philosophy behind that then about the actual concept of the story. I think the concept is really more of a framework for the author to discuss the themes. But of course themes of loneliness and getting older and the passage of time and regrets and reminiscing are all very relatable. I just recently discovered this author's work through watching black and white Japanese movies. And I was surprised they hadn't turned this into a movie yet either. I also watched the movie and I like how the movie was from the girl's point of view. I thought the movie was pretty good too I'm surprised it got worst film of the year!! I didn't think it was bad at all I enjoyed it. I do think both the movie and book suffered from the same problem and that was focusing on only the woman's point of view or only the man's point of view. When it should have focused on both imo. I definitely want you to review more classic japanese literature!

[@livingandreading1159]

Since it was written by a man, I think any attempt at giving a woman’s point of view would be nothing more than what the man thought her point of view was. I am surprised you enjoyed the story so much, being young and a woman. But of course, as you said, there are some general concepts we can relate to that are not conditioned on our biology, such as loneliness and fear of aging. About the film adaptation, I am surprised as well it has not been done. The Japanese are excellent at adapting their classics, and there are a few films based on Kawabata novels, such as ‘The Sound of the Mountain’ and ‘The Beauty and Sadness’. I do enjoy Japanese literature, and there are some great writers, Junichiro Tanizaki, Kobo Abe, Yukio Mishima, and novels, ‘Kokoro’, ‘The Woman in the Dunes’, etc. But I think Kawabata’s writing was the most feminine.