Kawabata Yasukuni opened "Snow Country" and saw the introduction and found that this was a collection of novels.

It includes two novels: "Izu's Dancer" and "Snow Country", and the author is called Haruku Murakami.

He subconsciously believed that this was a work by a Japanese writer, and seeing the name "Izu's Dancer" made him feel inexplicably familiar.

In the summer of 1922, he wrote an article titled "Memories of Tomoshima", but it did not publish it.

The reason for writing was that when he was traveling in Izu, he accidentally met a group of wandering artists at Yumoto Hotel on Yushima. He was impressed by one of the young geishas, ​​so he wrote this memory.

I felt that I was not very mature at the time, so I put it aside and did not contribute.

He looked through a few pages, and the more he read, the more he became more surprised that this article "Izu's Dancer" was so similar to the plot of "Memories of Yujima" he wrote last year, and some of the sentences were exactly the same.

But I have to say that this novel is much more mature than his novels in terms of storytelling and literary talent.

Kawabata Yasukuni was sure that he put it away after writing "Memories of Yujima". Even his best friend hadn't read it, so this article "The Dancer of Izu" can only be said to be a coincidence.

After all, Izu is a domestic tourist attraction. Yujima's hot springs are very famous. Many Japanese people will travel there. It is also a place for wandering artists. It is not uncommon to meet wandering artists.

Among every group of wandering artists, there are always young geishas, ​​who are vivid and beautiful, making people unable to help but feel pity.

My own experience is the same as that of countless other people. It is nothing surprising. It is just that some people forget it afterwards, while others are obsessed with it and written it into words and recorded it.

For a moment, Kawabata Yasukuni felt that he and Haruju Murakami, whom he had never met before, could be regarded as a confidant.

They are people who are both delicate and sensitive, and they also love beautiful things. They have the urge to know this person.

When Kim Dong-kwang saw Kawabata Yasen was stunned, he pushed him and asked the reason, and the two were good friends.

Kawabata Yasukuni smiled and said nothing. Such a wonderful thing can only be understood but not expressed in words. I am afraid that no one will believe it when I say it. It is better to hide it in my heart.

He handed the book "Snow Country" to Kim Dong-kwang, who is also a new Japanese writer.

At this moment, Kawabata Yasukuni was eager to know the origin of these books. Where is the author of this book "Snow Country"?

He asked the staff of the police headquarters and the news he received was that the books were donated from China. The staff also complained that it was not good to donate, but they just donated these useless things.

Because there are many victims and looting incidents occur in many places, most of the disaster relief supplies are stored in the police headquarters and transported out when needed.

The police did not know how to deal with these books, so they could only stack them there temporarily, waiting for orders.

Perhaps it also needs to be reviewed by the cultural department. Who knows if there are unhealthy books in it, and they are not proficient in Chinese.

Kawabata Yasukuni thought about it. The book "Snow Country" should have been written by Japanese expatriates living in China. These books should not be piled up here and trampled on them at will.

He discussed with the other two that he should send the batch of books to the university or library as soon as possible.

As for the review issue, the cultural department may not care about it at this time, so it can only be simple and find an expert who is proficient in Chinese to identify it.

In Japan, there are many scholars who are proficient in Chinese, and many Japanese people know some Chinese.

At this time, Kawabata Yasukuni and Kim Tokami had just made their debut in the Japanese literary world, and Akutagawa Ryuji was already a famous writer.

Akutagawa Ryuzu was born in 1892. In 1915, he wrote the world-renowned "Under the Bamboo Forest", but at that time he was still an unknown young man and did not begin to make his mark in the Japanese literary world until 1919.

In 1921, he was sent to China by the Osaka Daily News Agency as an overseas observer.

In China, he set out from Shanghai and visited Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Nanjing and Wuhu all the way, then went up the river to Hankou, visit Dongting, visit Changsha, and go to Beijing via Zhengzhou, Luoyang, and Longmen.

He knows Chinese literature very well. He especially likes "Water Margin" and "Journey to the West".

He came forward to issue an application to the Japanese Ministry of Culture to handle the batch of books transported by China on his behalf.

A few days later, the Japanese Ministry of Culture received a reply and sent a specialist to take charge of the matter.

Later, the batch of books was sent to Japanese universities and libraries for collection, and some of them were captured and burned for propaganda revolution and unhealthy thoughts.

Kawabata Yasukuni took away "Snow Country" and returned to Tokyo to read it carefully.

He has a familiar and intimate feeling about "Izu's Dancer", and he is only deeply impressed by "Snow Country".

He felt that this kind of work that combines traditional Japanese literature and Western literature has extremely shocking power.

At this time, the "new thought school" represented by the Ryuuka Akutagawa was popular.

The New Trend School believes that literary works can be fictional, emphasize the diversity of subjects, pay great attention to writing skills, and pay attention to the perfection of artistic forms.

This genre expresses the Japanese petty bourgeoisie's dissatisfaction with reality and suffering from no way out at the beginning of this century.

Kawabata Yasukuni is also a follower of the "New Trends", but he is not satisfied with this way of writing and wants to make innovations. "Snow Country" gave him great inspiration.

He and Kim Dong-kwang discussed the writing method of "Snow Country" and felt a sudden enlightenment.

He really wanted to communicate with the author of "Snow Country", but he didn't have the author's contact information, so he had to write a long letter with a try and sent it to the publisher who published "Snow Country".

A publishing house called Wanxiang Bookstore and asked the bookstore to forward it to the author himself.

At the same time, Kawabata Yasukuni also published a literary commentary on "Snow Country" in "Literary and Art Spring and Autumn", vigorously praised the novel, and said that it was the purest and most beautiful text in Japan.

The magazine "Literary and Art Spring and Autumn" was founded by Kikuchi in January 2019.

The reason was that Kikuchi Tomoto was tired of writing to adapt to the preferences of publishers and editors, claiming that "I want to write my own words", so he gathered more than 20 fan members to found the "Literary Spring and Autumn" magazine, which labeled "pure literature".

Kawabata Yasukawa is the editor of "Literary and Art Spring and Autumn".

This magazine later established the Akutagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize, which had a considerable influence in the Japanese literary world.

"Snow Country" also attracted the attention of the Japanese literary world because of its strong recommendation of "Literary and Art Spring and Autumn".

In Shanghai, Lin Zixuan received a letter transferred from Pingqianya. The letter had been translated into Chinese. He looked at the person who wrote the letter and the content in it, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

The so-called confidant is just another self in Kawabata Yasukuni. (~^~)
Chapter completed!