Appreciation of Snow Country Review

The nihility thought in Snow Country has penetrated deeply into the Japanese classical literature tradition, and it is an "oriental" nihility. Although Kawabata Yasunari was dissatisfied with the current situation of the literary world when he first came to the literary world, he once launched the "New Feeling Movement" with Yokotsu and others, trying to create a brand-new feeling world by means of western modernism such as Dadaism and Expressionism. He ignored the Japanese literary tradition and once "tried to deny and exclude it".

However, after middle age, Kawabata Yasunari found himself "never experienced the sadness and distress of western style, and never saw the nothingness and decadence of western style in Japan". He began to move closer to tradition. When writing Snow Country, in order to write the beauty that does not exist in this world, he can only seek creative inspiration from Japanese traditional culture.

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Creation background

Kawabata Yasunari's sense of nothingness in Snow Country is exactly the same as that in Genji Tale. The first layer of mourning is touching people. Especially the sadness of the relationship between men and women. This is reflected in the creative motivation of Snow Country.

Kawabata Yasunari once said: "I wrote Dancer of Izu and Snow Country with gratitude for love. This kind of performance is very simple in Izu's Dancer, but it goes a little deeper in Snow Country and is very painful. " The tradition of Japanese classical literature is to express sad thoughts from the love between men and women.

In the snow country, Komako really fell in love with Shimamura and couldn't help it. Shimamura clearly knows that Komako is infatuated with him, but thinks that Komako's pursuit of love and even her survival itself is futile. Sadly, Shimamura lived in Komako all her life, and the girl who loved for love drifted in the sad sea, and her heart was soaked with bitterness.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Snow Country