The Colony Til den smukkeste

Til den smukkeste

da Yasunari Kawabata i 1968 modtog Nobelprisen i Litteratur for sin evne til at skildre den japanske ånd og kultur

snurrig metafiktion og elaborerede og absurde fjollerier

som også involverer hendes svoger

hvori brevvekslingen fandt sted

The Colony Til den smukkesteHe handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea. Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine the authentic experience. Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this place one in his paintings, the other by capturing its speech, the language he hopes to preserve. But the people who live on this rock three miles long and