![]() In between are the relationships that were once the foundation of Shingo’s life: with his disappointing wife, his philandering son, and his daughter-in-law Kikuko, who instills in him both pity and uneasy stirrings of sexual desire. At night he hears a distant rumble from the nearby mountain, a sound he associates with death. For in his portrait of an elderly Tokyo businessman, Yasunari Kawabata charts the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing.īy day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. ![]() ![]() “The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lust-all the elements of Kawabata’s fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel that rises to the incantatory fascination of a Nō drama.” - Saturday Reviewįew novels have rendered the predicament of old age more beautifully than The Sound of the Mountain. ![]()
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