Kawabata's skeins of loss, longing

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: September 18, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

THE DANCING GIRL OF IZU AND OTHER STORIES By Yasunari Kawabata (translated, from the Japanese, by J. Martin Holman) Counterpoint, 160 pages, $22

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Yukio Mishima didn't wholeheartedly admire the writings of his mentor, Yasunari Kawabata, who also garnered a Nobel Prize for Literature. {CORRECTION - DATE: Friday, September 19, 1997: CORRECTION: Because of a reviewer's error, the review in yesterday's Living/Arts of Yasunari Kawabata's book, "The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories," incorrectly referred to Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima as a Nobel laureate. Mishima ...