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　　This is the novel--at once elegiac and suffused withlife--that Yasunari Kawabata, the internationally acclaimedJapanese writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in1968, considered to be his finest work. It centers on a single gameof Go, the ultimate contest for supremacy between the hithertoinvincible Master of Go and his yonnger, more modern challenger. Itis a game extended over many months of play, a game whose elevatedatmosphere of ceremony increasingly gives way before the complexhuman tensions not only between the Master and the Challenger butbetween their wives, their retinues, and the two worlds andsensibilities they represent. For the game is the frame-work: thetrue subject of Kawabata's profoundly moving novel is the contestbetween tradition and change, between the old Japan and the newand, ultimately, between life and death.

<p>　　This is the novel--at once elegiac and suffused with
life--that Yasunari Kawabata, the internationally acclaimed
Japanese writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1968, considered to be his finest work. It centers on a single game
of Go, the ultimate contest for supremacy between the hitherto
invincible Master of Go and his yonnger, more modern challenger. It
is a game extended over many months of play, a game whose elevated
atmosphere of ceremony increasingly gives way before the complex
human tensions not only between the Master and the Challenger but
between their wives, their retinues, and the two worlds and
sensibilities they represent. For the game is the frame-work: the
true subject of Kawabata's profoundly moving novel is the contest
between tradition and change, between the old Japan and the new
and, ultimately, between life and death.<br />
　　Yastmari Kawabata (1899-1972) was born in Osaka. As a boy he
hoped to become a painter, an aspiration reflected throughout his
novels. But he early decided to devote himself to writing; his
first stories were pub-lished while he was still at school. His
prodigious talent was introduced to Western readers in 1954 with
the appearance of Thelzu Dancer (origi-nally published in Japan in
1925,a year after the author's graduation from Tokyo Imperial
University). The subsequent publication of three brilliantly
acclaimed novels--Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, and The　Sound of
the Mountain-brought Kawabata ever-widening recognition. Atthe age
of seventy-three, he died by his own hand, leaving no note
ofexplanation. He was the undisputed doyen of Japanese letters.</p>

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