About the book: year / Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972), Japanese writer. The originality of the artistic style goes back to Zen aesthetics. The stories “Snow Country” (1937), “The Thousand-Winged Crane” (1951), the novels “The Moan of the Mountain” (1953), “The Old Capital” (1961) are distinguished by their psychologism and lyricism. Nobel Prize (1968)