by Yasunari Kawabata · Noguer y Caralt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788421726082
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«La casa de las bellas durmientes» is the novel by Yasunari Kawabata published by Noguer y Caralt in paperback (155 pages, in Spanish).
The elderly Eguchi visits a house where older men pay to sleep beside young sleeping women, without having relations with them. On his visits, Eguchi evokes women from his youth, and between sleep and memory he reflects on solitude, old age, and the closeness of death. The novel explores desire and the nature of beauty.
The novel was originally published in 1961 as «Nemureru Bijo» (眠れる美女); this Spanish edition is from 2005.
For readers of Japanese literature and twentieth-century classic fiction, as well as for those seeking a short, introspective novel.
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
