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Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) is the first Japanese to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kawabata made a debut in 1927 with his short story Izu no odoriko (Izu Dancer), which became one of his representative works in his earlier career. With…

In the Nobel Prize Memorial Lecture, in his speech titled “Aimai na Nihon no watakushi” (Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself)," while referring to Kawabata Yasunari’s 1968 memorial lecture, Ōe Kenzaburō (1935-) described the tradition of the post-war…

image 1:Ivan Bunin. Moskva: Molodaia gvardiia. 2000.

Seriia: Zhizn’ zamechatel’nykh liudei.

Ivo Andrić: Život. Beograd, Jugoslovenska Revija, 1989.

Research notes on the chapter of Wakana in The Tale of Genji