Criticism

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.

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."

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.

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.