Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata
General Resources:
Yasunari Kawabata - Wikipedia entry
Brief biography and Kawabata's Nobel Lecture from The Nobel Prize
VIDEO: Interview with Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima via YouTube
Podcasts:
"History of World Literature: Kawabata Yasunari’s Snow Country" from The Great Courses
"Kawabata, Snow Country" from Reading and Writing
"'Snow Country' by Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata" from Literature in Color
"Episode 83 – Snow Country" from Finding Japan
Online Articles:
"How to Survive a Snow Country" by Yoojin Na for Epiphany
"Japan’s first Nobel literature laureate a towering figure 50 years after death" by Will Fee for The Japan Times
"Kawabata Yasunari: Finding the Harmonies Between Literature and Traditional Art" by Taniguchi Sachiyo for nippon.com
Critical Articles:
"The Asymmetrical Garden: Discovering Yasunari Kawabata" - Thom Palmer
"The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1967-1987: A Japanese View" - Yoshio Iwamoto
"Recommended: Yasunari Kawabata" - Mary Jo Moran
"Snow Countries: Joyce and Kawabata" - David Burleigh
"A Thematic Study of the Works of Kawabata Yasunari" - Reiko Tsukimura
"The Tyranny of Beauty: Kawabata" - Brian Phillips
"Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972): Tradition versus Modernity" - Sidney DeVere Brown
