The Sound of the Mountain (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Yasunari Kawabata
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The early 1950’s
- Setting: Kamakura, Tokyo, and Shinshu, Japan
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, Parents and children, Love or romance, Marriage, Pregnancy, Fathers, Death or dying, Abortion, Japan or Japanese people, Mortality, Tokyo
- Locales: Tokyo, Japan, Kamakura, Japan, Shinshu, Japan
Characters Discussed
Shingo, a businessman. At roughly sixty- three years old, he is a year younger than his wife and preoccupied with some of the principal concerns of aging. His unreliable memory at one point makes him forget momentarily how to knot his tie, whereas his longing for his beautiful, long-dead sister-in-law is disturbingly fresh. It is right before her death that he first hears the sound of the mountain. Concerned that the problems of his son and daughter point to his failure as a father, he feels inept trying to straighten out their lives as adults. Unable to...
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