Further Reading
- Anderer, Paul. Review of Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. The Journal of Asian Studies 48, No. 4 (November 1989): 865-66. (Admires the "sense of warmth and fragility" that "offsets the cool formalism of Kawabata's spare and rigorous method" in the stories in this volume.)
- Baird, James. "Contemporary Japanese Fiction." Sewanee Review 67, No. 3 (Summer 1959): 477-96. (Discusses what Japanese fiction of the 1950s has in common with Western literature focusing on specific authors, including Yasunari Kawabata.)
- Brown, Sidney DeVere. "Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972): Tradition versus Modernity." World Literature Today 62, No. 3 (Summer 1988): 375-79. (Retrospective survey that attempts to "put Kawabata in the context of his times and reconstruct those times . . . from the fragments about the world around the writers and artists, the dilettantes and lovely traditional Japanese women who inhabit his stories.")
- Brown, Sidney DeVere. Review of Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. World Literature Today 64, No. 1 (Winter 1990): 197. (Favorable assessment of the juxtaposition of images, the "spare, elliptical style," and the suggestiveness of the short pieces in this collection.)
- Donahue, Neil H. "Age, Beauty and Apocalypse." Arcadia (1993): 291-306. (Discusses the Japanese dimension of Max Frisch's Der Mensch erscheint in Holozan by comparing it to Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain.)
- Dunlop, Lane. "Three Thumbprint Novels from the Japanese of Yasunari Kawabata." Prairie Schooner 53, No. 1 (Spring 1979): 1-10. (Translates three of Kawabata's short stories including, "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket," "The Silverberry Thief," and "The Young Lady of Suruga.")
- Grigson, Geoffrey. "Stories by Kawabata." In his The Contrary View: Glimpses of Fudge and Gold, pp. 200-03. London: The Macmillan Press, 1974. (Praises the "maximal artistry" evident in the stories in House of the Sleeping Beauties.)
- Jones, Richard. "Craters." The Listener 82, No. 2107 (14 August 1969): 223. (Provides a favorable review of Kawabata's House of the Sleeping Beauties.)
- Jordan, Clive. "Sleeping and Waking." New Statesman 78, No. 2003 (1 August 1969): 153-54. (Reviews Kawabata's House of Sleeping Beauties and discusses the Western approach to the stories.)
- Stuewe, Paul. Review of House of the Sleeping Beauties. Books in Canada 12, No. 3 (26 March 1983): 26. (Offers high praise for Kawabata's writing, which "confronts the most basic contradictions of human life with poise and serenity, and makes high art of the existential ebb and flow that will ultimately lay us low.")
- Ueda, Makoto. "Kawabata Yasunari." Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976, pp. 173-218. (Discusses the works of Yasunari Kawabata and his reviews of other novelists.)
- Watson, S. Harrison. "Ideological Transformation by Translation: Izu no Odoriko." Comparative Literature Studies 28, No. 3 (1991): 310-21. (Analyzes two scenes from Kawabata's Izu no Odoriko that are missing from the Edward Seidensticker translation of the novel.)
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