Volume 12, Number 6 · March 27, 1969
The Japanese Nobel
By D.J. Enright
Snow Country and Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata, Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker
Knopf, 334 pp., $5.95
In the course of a recent tutorial on Paradise Lost I was reminded by a Chinese nun that we were not talking about God but only about Milton's God. I must make it quite clear that I am now talking not about Kawabata but only about Seidensticker's Kawabata.
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