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Kawabata Yasunari and Yokomitsu Shinkankakuha was not meant to be an updated or restored
version of Impressionism. It focused on offering "new impressions," or, more accurately, "new
sensations" in the writing of literature.
Kawabata gained his first public attention in 1926 with the novella "The Izu Dancer" Kawabata
refused to participate in the militaristic fervor accompanying World War II. Along with the deaths
of his family, the war was one of the most important influences on his work.
Kazuyoshi Kawabata's Snow Country was published in installments from 1935 to 1947. The
novel is a love affair between a Tokyo dilettante and a provincial geisha, and takes place in a
remote hot-spring town somewhere north of the mountainous region of Japan.
Kawabata's success continued with novels such as Thousand Cranes (a story of ill-fated love),
The Sound of the Mountain; The House of Sleeping Beauties; Beauty and Sadness; and The
Old Capital. After the end of World War II he said that from then on he would only be able to
write elegies.
Kazuyoshi Kawabata's novel The Master of Go is a semi-fictional recounting of a major Go
(Asian board game resembling chess) match in 1938. Although the novel is moving, some
readers consider it a symbolic parallel to the defeat of Japan in World War II.
Kazuyoshi Kawabata became the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1968, for his three novels Snow Country, The Old Capital and Thousand Cranes. As
president of the P.E.N. for many years after World War Two, he was a driving force behind the
translation of Japanese literature into English and other Western languages.
Many have suggested that his suicide may have been caused by poor health, a possible illicit
love affair, or the shock of the suicide of Yukio Mishima.

What is the novel The Mole all about?

The mole symbolizes the deformity of Sayoko that makes her the object of other 's pity and
disgust. It also symbolizes physical flaws and weakness. In the part of Sayoko, the mole
signifies pleasant things about her childhood days.