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Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain is a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age — the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing.
By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo businessman, is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby mountain with the sounds of death. In between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations of Shingo’s life: his trying wife; his philandering son; and his beautiful daughter-in-law, who inspires in him both pity and the stirrings of desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments, Kawabata has crafted a novel that is a powerful, serenely observed meditation on the relentless march of time.
- Sales Rank: #189103 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Vintage
- Published on: 1996-05-28
- Released on: 1996-05-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.99" h x .62" w x 5.19" l, .49 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
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- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
“Kawabata is a poet of the gentlest shades, of the evanescent, the imperceptible.”
—Commonweal
“A rich, complicated novel. . . . Of all modern Japanese fiction, Kawabata’s is the closest to poetry.”
—The New York Times Book Review
Language Notes
Text: English, Japanese (translation)
From the Back Cover
By day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he hears a distant rumble from the nearby mountain, a sound he associates with death. In between are the relationships that were once the foundation of Shingo's life: with his disappointing wife, his philandering son, and his daughter-in-law Kikuko, who instills in him both pity and uneasy stirrings of sexual desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments - and the tiny shifts of loyalty and affection that threaten to sever it irreparably - Kawabata creates a novel that is at once serenely observed and enormously affecting.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A man and his country at the crossroads of life and death and death and life.
By Tony Covatta
While I much prefer Kawabata's Snow Country, I found The Sound of the Mountain a very worthwhile read as well. Kawabata is a master of the delicate detail, the telling nuance. This novel works on a number of levels.
Most basically, it is the tale of Ogata Shingo, an aging businessman, slowly losing his faculties and descending into old age and decrepitude. He is not there yet, as he struggles to deal with his scrappy, common sensical wife, his depressed and quietly rebellious son Shuichi, his divorced and unhappy daughter Fasuko and her bratty daughter Satoko, and on the other end of the spectrum, his beautiful, dutiful, half in love with him daughter in law, Kikuko. Even the dog Teru has a role to play as she efficiently brings five pups into the world who are eventually given away. The action is quiet, almost non-existent, as the family eats meals, worries about the cherry trees and other flora, as well as fauna in the yard, and learns to adjust to Fasuko's divorce and Kikuko and Shuichi's rocky start to their marriage.
Shingo tries to deal with this with all the clarity that he can muster, but he is far from perfect. His own marriage is dogged by his constant harking back to the fact that he was originally attracted to his wife's much more attractive sister, who unfortunately died. Shingo in that and other things lacks sufficient clarity of thought and feeling. He tries to apply the Confucian and other endemic principles imbued in him in a world that is changing before his eyes. His own emotional make up causes difficulties, as he is drawn to Kikuko, at the same time that she is drawn to him emotionally, but he is much too fine a man to become physically involved with his daughter in law (as is she). But the pull is always there and most delicately rendered by Kawabata.
All of this is rendered against a backdrop of a nation, ethnic group and culture putting the shards of life back together after the crushing, humiliating defeat of World War II. I have never seen any writing that gives one more insight into the visceral disappointment, humiliation and dislocation that the outcome of the war visited upon the Japanese.
As painful as it is, we see the family struggling to adjust to the new ways and the new life they face in the 1950s. As Shingo feels his own death and the death of old Japan approaching, we see the following generation, scarred by the war, yet moving ahead into a less formal, more down to earth future.
All of this is rendered by a master of the telling detail. The reader can sense the depth of Kikuko and Shingo's feelings for each other--yet in the 270 pages of this edition they never touch each other passionately or express other than the most respectful of father-daughter sentiment. Yet the cauldron boils underneath. For Kawabata a few strokes of the pen do what most writers cannot achieve in a lengthy chapter.
The insights of a great artist, showing us the inner life of a few individuals, yet exemplifying the forces driving an entire nation in a trying time.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A great read, had me wishing it was longer!
By Riley Azondda
The sound of the mountain's title made me believe that the sound ( the main characters feeling of looming death of old age) would be a large section of the book but the show here gets stolen by the relationships that shingo the main character forms and changes.
The growing closeness in between his son's wife and himself are what makes this story enjoyable to read about, this story is honest yet sweet. it's not overly dramatic in its events, and manages to still be a book that has you at the edge of your seat as to what happens next in this plethora of changing relationships. The book is great but those who like epic novels and the like will most likely be bored here, but make no doubt, this story is both frightening with shingo's growing strains with his wife and son and his fear of death but also perplexing yet heartwarming growing relationship with his husband's wife. He secretly lusts after her yet he has tremendous growing respect for her. Seeing this develop had me at the edge of my seat.
I would definitely Recomend this great story and the book itself comes in a decently compact size which I prefer and best of all with a decently sized font that won't strain the eyes, If your looking for a interesting story with with interesting characters and dynamic relationships then pick this up!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Impossible to get to literature through mistakes (Kindle edition!)
By marius petrukaitis
The story, like any by the writer, is subtle and layered. However, the edition was full of mistakes and mistypes. Up to the point where there were 3-4 mistakes in a page. Trying to report them, I was constantly switching between book pages and content error pages. Sad.
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