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thanhoithanh3003's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
twinkpuncher's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
nicoleava's review against another edition
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Absolutely disgusting.
marie1993's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
ipehalena's review against another edition
4.0
"Malam-malam yang menyajikan kumbang dan anjing-anjing hitam dan mayat-mayat orang mati lemas."
Rumah Perawan cukup membuat saya berpikir tentang : Mengapa bagi seorang Eguci tua, demi mendapatkan rentetan kenangan akan masa lalunya untuk menyongsong kematian, harus melalui malam-malam tidur dengan seorang gadis yang masih perawan namun telah ditidurkan terlebih dahulu.
Sempat pertanyaan ini terus menggantung dalam benak saya. Dan akhirnya saya tahu jawabannya, tanpa harus Kawabata jelaskan. Bisa jadi penerimaan saya salah, tapi setidaknya tidak keluar dari koridor. Hanya saja, karya ini termasuk yang membekas, padahal tidak begitu membuat saya antusias. Entah kenapa justru memberikan kesan, mungkin karena Eguci tua kerap teringat akan masa lalunya setiap bersama dengan gadis berbeda?
Seperti ketika saya tidur dengan buku-buku berbeda, kemudian teringat dengan kenangan-kenangan masa lalu yang akhirnya membuat saya tertegun, oh ternyata saya masih mengingatnya, seperti itu. Entahlah. Tapi, saya tidak menyesal membaca novela ini, meski sedikit merasa aneh dengan Eguci tua.
Read More : http://www.bacaanipeh.web.id/2018/01/rumah-perawan-yasunari-kawabata-sebuah.html
Rumah Perawan cukup membuat saya berpikir tentang : Mengapa bagi seorang Eguci tua, demi mendapatkan rentetan kenangan akan masa lalunya untuk menyongsong kematian, harus melalui malam-malam tidur dengan seorang gadis yang masih perawan namun telah ditidurkan terlebih dahulu.
Sempat pertanyaan ini terus menggantung dalam benak saya. Dan akhirnya saya tahu jawabannya, tanpa harus Kawabata jelaskan. Bisa jadi penerimaan saya salah, tapi setidaknya tidak keluar dari koridor. Hanya saja, karya ini termasuk yang membekas, padahal tidak begitu membuat saya antusias. Entah kenapa justru memberikan kesan, mungkin karena Eguci tua kerap teringat akan masa lalunya setiap bersama dengan gadis berbeda?
Seperti ketika saya tidur dengan buku-buku berbeda, kemudian teringat dengan kenangan-kenangan masa lalu yang akhirnya membuat saya tertegun, oh ternyata saya masih mengingatnya, seperti itu. Entahlah. Tapi, saya tidak menyesal membaca novela ini, meski sedikit merasa aneh dengan Eguci tua.
Read More : http://www.bacaanipeh.web.id/2018/01/rumah-perawan-yasunari-kawabata-sebuah.html
altheac's review against another edition
1.0
ugh god men can be pathetic this was some misogynist’s virgin purity porn
mrwinstonblue's review against another edition
challenging
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The House of Sleeping Beauties follows the narrator, a 67-year-old man named Eguchi, as he visits a unique brothel where old men come to spend the night with young and beautiful ladies who have been put to sleep. Throughout, the 6 nights spent in that unique brothel, Eguchi observes the sleeping beauties in microscopic details as the scent and the color of their youth envelop him, pulling him back into the embrace of the women he met in his 67-year-old long life. House of Sleeping Beauties is a story about reflection, introspection, and memories, where ugliness embraces beauty, senility dances with youth, and death flirts with life.
Throughout the novella, Eguchi studies the sleeping beauties, who have been put in a slumber so deep, that it was as if they were "living corpses". Yet, in their death-like sleep, Eguchi is overwhelmed by sensual adoration, over the life, personality, and youth of these living corpses in their seemingly eternal slumber. It is also in these moments of dream-like veneration that lust comes into the narrative. Kawabata discusses the idea of lust divorced from its core motivation, the act of physical sex itself. The old men who frequent this peculiar brothel are impotent, protecting the sleeping beauties from any sort of "assault". It is in this sensibly-constructed narrative that the readers are given the chance to explore the idea of lust, beauty, and sensuality in its most intimate form- when sex is out of the picture.
Through the entanglement of beauty and ugliness, death and life, as well as senility and youth, seen in the old men spending the night with naked beauties put to a seemingly endless slumber, births a sort of impertinence. The audacity that such antonyms were to cross their respective lines and to join hands in a tiny cold room, bordered by crimson velvet walls and the distant murmurs of the moaning sea.
Altogether, House of Sleeping Beauties is such a wonder to read, as we, readers sit by the dark corner of Eguchi's mind and observe every intimate introspection and observation that make its way in. Through Eguchi's lenses, Kawabata forces us to reflect on the sexualization and objectification of women through the masculine gaze. This amorous reverence for the beauty of women is made even more disquieting through Kawabata's sensual and carnal language used to describe the 5 senses of Eguchi, aroused by the voluptuous scent of a young woman. As Kawabata displays his usual mastery of language, we as readers cannot be helped but be sucked into the vortex of his beautiful eloquence, with regard to such a perturbing subject.
In the end, We too end up gazing at the silhouette of the sleeping beauties body, in the same dehumanizing sexualization, sensualization, and glorification that Eguchi had been plagued with.
Throughout the novella, Eguchi studies the sleeping beauties, who have been put in a slumber so deep, that it was as if they were "living corpses". Yet, in their death-like sleep, Eguchi is overwhelmed by sensual adoration, over the life, personality, and youth of these living corpses in their seemingly eternal slumber. It is also in these moments of dream-like veneration that lust comes into the narrative. Kawabata discusses the idea of lust divorced from its core motivation, the act of physical sex itself. The old men who frequent this peculiar brothel are impotent, protecting the sleeping beauties from any sort of "assault". It is in this sensibly-constructed narrative that the readers are given the chance to explore the idea of lust, beauty, and sensuality in its most intimate form- when sex is out of the picture.
Through the entanglement of beauty and ugliness, death and life, as well as senility and youth, seen in the old men spending the night with naked beauties put to a seemingly endless slumber, births a sort of impertinence. The audacity that such antonyms were to cross their respective lines and to join hands in a tiny cold room, bordered by crimson velvet walls and the distant murmurs of the moaning sea.
Altogether, House of Sleeping Beauties is such a wonder to read, as we, readers sit by the dark corner of Eguchi's mind and observe every intimate introspection and observation that make its way in. Through Eguchi's lenses, Kawabata forces us to reflect on the sexualization and objectification of women through the masculine gaze. This amorous reverence for the beauty of women is made even more disquieting through Kawabata's sensual and carnal language used to describe the 5 senses of Eguchi, aroused by the voluptuous scent of a young woman. As Kawabata displays his usual mastery of language, we as readers cannot be helped but be sucked into the vortex of his beautiful eloquence, with regard to such a perturbing subject.
In the end, We too end up gazing at the silhouette of the sleeping beauties body, in the same dehumanizing sexualization, sensualization, and glorification that Eguchi had been plagued with.
comparadox's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
armintoss's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0