Sichuan End Image Of Beauty In Literature

The novel Snow Country is Kawabata Yasunari’s representative work in the mediumperiod of his career, and the background is set in Xinxi. This novel has received great reviewsall over the world. To some extent, one novel receives so many praises from different readers,which can be considered as a miracle as well as indicate some common things beyond culture.This thesis tries to revaluate the beauty in Snow Country from a Chinese reader’sperspective. Through the analysis of character, nature, theme, the effects of mirror and artisticexpression, this thesis will explore Kawabata Yasunari’s attitude towards mankind weaknessand ugliness. Another important point in this thesis is to clear what beauty KawabataYasunari is actually longing for based on the analysis of due attitude of mankind and originalattitude of love.Snow Country is a narrative work under the background of traditional beauty of Japan.The author Kawabata Yasunari attempted to achieve his own aesthetics through thedescription of character and nature. It embodies ethereal beauty, sensory beauty, realisticbeauty, unrealistic beauty, dead beauty and so on. Not only that, it is close to the beauty ofnature from the description of nature. Applied by the effects of mirror and artistic expression,the language of this novel shows all kinds of beauty which is extended with different forms.The oversea Japanese will have a kind of nostalgia when they read this novel approximatelyfor its traditional beauty world of Japan. In this novel, the author presented heavy Japaneselocal customs which even makes world-wide people yearning. In other words, this kind ofbeauty world has aroused resonance in readers’ deep heart all over the world. That is to say,the beauty described in this novel is considered as the mutual beauty in the world.