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The Master of Go

By Yasunari Kawabata

The Master of Go Contemporary literature

The Master of Go

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From the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes comes the luminous chronicle of a match of the Japanese game Go played between a master and a younger, more modern challenger that serves as a suspenseful elegy for an entire society.   Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other’s black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible Master and a younger, more modern challenger, Yasunari Kawabata captured the moment in which the immutable traditions of imperial Japan met the onslaught of the twentieth century. The competition between the Master of Go and his opponent, Otaké, is waged over several months and layered in ceremony. But beneath the game’s decorum lie tensions that consume not only the players themselves but their families and retainers—tensions that turn this particular contest into a duel that can only end in death. Luminous in its detail, both suspenseful and serene, The Master of Go is written with the poetic economy and psychological acumen that brought Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
1996-05-28
Publication Date:
1996-05-28
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679761063
ISBN13:
9780679761068
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
185 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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