Nobel Lectures in Literature 1968-1980
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Published: August 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9789810211745
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Other prose: from c 1900 -; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; Literary Collections; Authors; History: American; USA; Essays; 20th century; History and criticism; Biography; Literature, Modern; Nobel Prizes
First sentence: The recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, the Japanese Yasunari Kawabata, was born in 1899 in the big industrial town of Osaka, where his father was a highly cultured doctor with literary interests.