by Yasunari Kawabata · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496580886
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«La casa de las bellas durmientes» is the short novel by Yasunari Kawabata, published by Austral in paperback (112 pages, in Spanish).
The elderly Eguchi, sixty-seven years old, visits a secret house where young drugged women sleep while he contemplates their beauty. Eguchi recalls the women of his life: his wife, his lover, his mother, his daughters, between desire and memory. Eroticism, old age and death intertwine in a dreamlike, almost unreal and disturbing atmosphere.
Work originally published in 1961 as «Nemureru Bijo». Kawabata received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. This edition belongs to the Contemporánea collection, with translation by M. C.
For readers of Japanese narrative and literary fiction, with an adult look at desire, old age and memory.
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.
