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The Master of Go

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Vintage Books, May 28, 1996 - Fiction - 208 pages
Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones; it is also an essential expression of Japanese spirit. In his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and invincible master and a younger, more modern challenger, Kawabata captures the moment in which the immutable traditions of Japan meet the onslaught of the twentieth century. 'The master of go' is an elegy for an entire society, written with the poetic economy and psychological acumen that brought Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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User Review  - umberto - Goodreads

Reading this novel by Kawabata is, I think, a bit different from reading his other three, namely, "Snow Country", "Thousand Cranes", and "The Sound of the Mountain". One of the reasons is that it ... Read full review

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User Review  - Steve Cox - Goodreads

This is a very quiet book, in a good way. The aging Go master plays his retirement match against a young challenger. There is intentionally no suspense as to the outcome. We know early on that the ... Read full review

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Yasunari Kawabata - The Master of Go
Kawabata has a reputation for being difficult, and of all his books I've read to date, The Master of Go is probably the least accessible. ...
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The Master of Go is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata, first published in serial form in 1951. Titled Meijin (名人) in ...
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The first, which should be of great interest to all Go players, is "The Master of Go." Originally this was translated by Edward G. Seidensticker and ...
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Sensei's Library: Kawabata's Master of Go
The Master of Go is a novel written by Kawabata Yasunari (surname first). Kawabata, a Nobel prizewinner for Literature, published this novel in 1951. ...
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Title: The master of go / Yasunari Kawabata ; translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker. Publication info: New York, ny : Knopf, 1972. ...
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John Connolly
I was browsing in a Dublin bookstore when I found a book for which I’d been casually searching for some time: The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, ...
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The Master of Go The Master of Go 1981 Perigee Books edition Author Yasunari Kawabata Country Japan Language Japanese (later translated into English )
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Tragic Vision in Kawabata's The Master of Go Joseph H. Bourque Montana State University At first glance the application of the thoroughly Western dramatic ...
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The Master of Go , by Kawabata Yasunari. Perigee; 1981. This is a novel about go, and it's wonderful. It's about the last official match played by Shusai, ...
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About the author (1996)

Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1968. His 1937 novel "Snow Country "secured his position as one of Japan's leading authors. Alisa Freedman is a visiting assistant professor of Japanese literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Donald Richie--novelist, critic, essayist, travel writer, and former director of the Japanese cinema collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York--is author of "The Films of Akira Kurosawa.

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