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A review by nathansnook
Dandelions by Yasunari Kawabata
3.0
As a first Kawabata read, I think I've made the wrong choice according to other readers on here.
It's strange. It's metaphysical. It asks what it means to have a body and what it is to lose sight of things physical, metaphorically and and physically.
The story moves mostly through dialogue that remains colloquial. Same parts of old stories told between the husband and his mother-in-law will flow in and out and up again like how they happen in brunches or drunk murmurs in low key bars.
There are potholes and places where you'll pass a yawn, but if you are a Kawabata fan, finishing this unfinished piece of work allows you to see his story-building process and the inventive tools he used in his own writing. A must-read for writers on writings of Kawabata.
It's strange. It's metaphysical. It asks what it means to have a body and what it is to lose sight of things physical, metaphorically and and physically.
The story moves mostly through dialogue that remains colloquial. Same parts of old stories told between the husband and his mother-in-law will flow in and out and up again like how they happen in brunches or drunk murmurs in low key bars.
There are potholes and places where you'll pass a yawn, but if you are a Kawabata fan, finishing this unfinished piece of work allows you to see his story-building process and the inventive tools he used in his own writing. A must-read for writers on writings of Kawabata.