Yasunari Kawabata, The Old Capital.(Book review)

Southeast Review of Asian Studies | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

Yasunari Kawabata, The Old Capital. Translated by J. Martin Holman. Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006. xiv + 182 pages.

Translator J. Martin Holman (coordinator of Japanese Studies at the University of Missouri) exhibited samurai patience to wait almost twenty years after his initial 1987 translation of Kawabata's (1899-1972) novel The Old Capital before penning this completely revised version. Why is it so difficult to capture the essence of a Japanese novel or city in an English translation? After the 1987 translation was published, numerous friends, ...

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