This articles strongest point is that Kawabata is best appreciated and most masterful with his palm of the hand stories, and that his long novels should not really be deemed novels. In fact, these extended narratives, perhaps in part due to magazine serialization, do not end, but merely stop. This article delves into the conflicting forces represented by the Master, who becomes the embodiment of traditional with his aesthetic appreciation of the inner workings of go, while the challenger Otake is an embodiment of the modern, rational man, intent on success. Pilarcik faithfully demonstrates the ebb and flow in breaking down the aspects of each man's game. In the end, however, it is not either man's personality nor just the death of the Master, but it is the decline of go as an art, with its grand traditions which inevitably fades to the modern world.
Any Asian Author can Win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In Studies on Japanese Culture , 369-373. The Japan P.E.N. Club, 1973. Based on his translation of Snow Country into Thai, Prabhavi-Vadhana breaks down this work to discuss how Kawabata wrote. In doing this, he points out that any Asian writer should study this work to understand that it is not necessary to publish in English as long as the work contributes to the literary world through the presentation of the writer's own culture. Riley, Carloyn, ed.