A thousands of a crane. Kavabata Ya.

“Fathers ate acidic grapes, and in children on the teeth of the sorestraff” - a biblical quote, surprisingly accurately conveying the “upper”, “plot” layer of the novel by Yasunari Kawabata “Thousand Male Crane”. The story of the nervous, reflecting young man Kikuji, to whom one of the mistresses of the deceased father is intrusively trying to replace his mother and sink the bride, the other for some reason turns a novel with him, and he falls in love with her daughter, who, in turn, is difficult and ambiguous to him Feelings, performed by the Western author, would have prettyly given a comedy, but Kawabat was a Japanese, and therefore his penetrated by national symbols (in which the through images of the crane and the tea ceremony are only most obvious) and numerous allusions and references to the masterpieces of the Heyan and Samurai era, the novel was and remains One of the most brilliant, aristocratically sophisticated and ambiguous works of the past century.