Beauty and Sadness
A married novelist takes the train to Kyoto to hear the New Year bells and to see Otoko, the girl he ruined twenty-four years earlier and then made famous by writing a novel about it, now a painter living with a beautiful and much younger pupil. The pupil has plans of her own for him and for his family. Kawabata's coldest late book, and the one that turns his own subject — the artist feeding on a girl's life — back on the artist.
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