Transcript of Kawabata's Nobel Lecture
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/kawabata-lecture.html
Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
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The novel's second part begins with Shimamura in his room observing the early autumn insects that have entered it. Of particular importance is the moth: "The moth did not move. He struck at it with his fist, and it fell like a leaf from a tree,...
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