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Loading... CASA DE LAS BELLAS DURMIENTES, LA (original 1961; edition 2011)by KAWABATA YASUNARI
Work InformationHouse of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata (1961)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Fascinante. ( ) (MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS) I really liked Kawabata's 'Snow Country' and so I was really excited about reading this novella. But wow, was I disappointed! I really have no problem with 'morality' issues (or lack of) in arts, as long as the artwork is interesting, thought-provoking. But this book was simply disgusting. Not disturbing, simply disgusting. I take no pleasure in reading about an ageing man that fears he will soon be unable to have erections, and even less reading about one who thinks of himself as 'superior' because he is 'actually' still able to have one by sleeping next to a naked young girl. And the part where he described the 14 year old prostitute (this one not asleep) he once paid for just made me mad. 'Shocking or not' question aside, this book simply fails to explore it's themes in interesting ways. As hard as I tried to understand even a tad bit the hero, this book ended up just making me read faster to get over with it as soon as possible. If you really want to understand Kawabata's genius, I recommend 'Snow Country', and I recommend you ignore 'House of the Sleeping Beauties'. Hey, 125 pages *is* short, but how many awesome Yukio Mishima short stories can you fit in that many pages? no reviews | add a review
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Dans une étrange maison de prostitution, les Belles endormies, parées de leurs charmes, attendent des clients de "tout repos", des hommes dans leur grand âge. Frédéric Clément a illustré cet univers raffiné, parsemé d'objets délicats, de portraits troublants qui jouent de leur lumière sur les pages ivoirées. No library descriptions found. |
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