by Yasunari Kawabata · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253029892
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«Les Belles Endormies» is the novel by Yasunari Kawabata published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (124 pages, in French).
An old man named Eguchi visits a secret house where older men sleep beside young women who are drugged and unconscious. Between impossible desire and the closeness of death, Eguchi recalls the women in his life and reflects on old age, solitude and memory in a tale of restrained atmosphere and modest eroticism.
This edition belongs to the biblio collection of Livre de Poche; the original title, «Nemureru Bijo», was published in 1961.
For readers of classic Japanese narrative and literary fiction who appreciate the sober prose of a Nobel Prize in Literature winner.
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.
