by Yasunari Kawabata · Viena · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483304587
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«La casa de les belles adormides» is the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, published by Viena in paperback (128 pages, in Catalan).
An old man pays to sleep in a rest house beside naked, drugged young women whom he cannot touch; the proximity of their bodies is meant to restore his youth and memories. It is a poetic meditation on old age, desire, memory, and death. It inspired 'Memoria de mis putas tristes' by Gabriel García Márquez.
Volume 1 of the El cercle de Viena collection. Translated from the Japanese by Sandra Ruiz Morilla and Albert Mas-Griera; epilogue by Yukio Mishima. Work originally published in 1961.
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.
