In the past few years, I have read a lot of works by Yasunari Kawabata, and after reading it, I still feel that "Snow Country" is the most classic and the most evocative.
Snow Country is a remote place, it's beautiful and it's quiet. Shimamura fell in love with it as soon as he came, and the reader saw through Shimamura's eyes that it was clean and cold.
Yasunari Kawabata contrasts the static environment with the dynamic characters, the static things have not changed with the passage of time year after year, but the dynamic people have changed subtly in the meeting again and again.
At the age of 17, Komako was so clean that people couldn't bear to blaspheme, but at the age of 21, Komako was already old in Shimamura's eyes, and he didn't want to give Koma any hope, but he was attached to Komako's obsession with him.
It's so contradictory, you want to have what you like, but you have to tolerate what you don't like, otherwise you won't get anything.
Shimamura comes to Snow Country year after year in a struggle, and he sees and has Komako, but wants to keep a safe distance from her.
People who come to the snow country to play see everything here seem to be a fantasy, vast and ethereal, but the people who live here seem to live in hell, because of poverty, they can only struggle and seek to live.
Komako is one of the poor, she is forced to become a geisha, to please men to make a living, but she is not willing to live like this for the rest of her life, she writes a diary, she works hard to hone her skills, hoping to win a turn of fate for herself.
When Komako meets this different man from Shimamura, her heart burns with hope that this man can change her fate, and that this man can take her out of this cold world with no end in sight.
Shimamura comes every year, but he never intends to take him away, and even if he promises to take away the leaves, he never promises to take away Komako, which is the cruelest reality.
In fact, no one in this world can be relied on, only oneself is the basis of one's own destiny. What the foal can't get out of is to be trapped in the world she lives in, not to rely on the hearts of others.
Because of the cold, the snow country has kept the gloom for a long time, and the snow country is poor because of the poverty, but it has trapped a girl like a flower season. Cold and poor are both desolation, one is natural desolation and the other is desolation between people.
Snow Country depicts two paintings, one is static beauty, the other is dynamic sadness, and people will have a lot of thoughts and reverie when they see it, which is one of Kawabata's many works that is worth reading carefully.
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