《The Master of Go》是Vintage出版的圖書，作者是Yasunari Kawabata
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780679761068
- 作者：Yasunari Kawabata
- 出版社：Vintage
- 出版時間：1996年5月28日
- 頁數：187
- 定價：USD 13.95
- 裝幀：Paperback
內容簡介
Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other’s black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible Master and a younger, more modern challenger, Yasunari Kawabata ca...(展開全部) Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other’s black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible Master and a younger, more modern challenger, Yasunari Kawabata captured the moment in which the immutable traditions of imperial Japan met the onslaught of the twentieth century. The competition between the Master of Go and his opponent, Otaké, is waged over several months and layered in ceremony. But beneath the game’s decorum lie tensions that consume not only the players themselves but their families and retainers—tensions that turn this particular contest into a duel that can only end in death. Luminous in its detail, both suspenseful and serene, 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.Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker 川端康成（1899-1972），日本小說家，新感覺派代表作家之一。他的作品有印象主義色彩，意境新穎，同時由於受佛教影響較深，作品常帶有消極悲觀情調。代表作有《雪國》、《古都》、《睡美人》、《伊豆的舞女》等。川端康成獲1968年諾貝爾文學獎，是繼泰戈爾之後第二個獲此項殊榮的東方作家。
