The Lake
Author: Yasunari Kawabata
Description: Three short stories contained in the same volume (The Lake, The Arm, Quickly Shake It). The Lake is about Gimpei, the teacher who followed women. A world of demons, ghosts, and an unstable personality. / The Arm is a short piece of writing in the surrealist style. / “Quickly Shake It” (from Iroha Uta, a poem from the Heian period, in which all the basic characters in the Japanese lexicon are used, only once) is about two girls murdered by a mentally ill potential murderer, an event seen through the eyes of a novelist emotionally involved in the relationship with the girls.
Year: 1954
MyRating (1-5): ***