Ready Reference Treatise: Snow Country

By Raja Sharma

“Snow Country” by Yasunari Kawabata was first published as a short story in a literary journal in January 1935. It was later developed into a full-length novel.

The novel brought the author a lot of name and fame, ensconcing him among the foremost authors in Japan.

The novel is considered to be one of the most regarded classic works of Japanese literature.

Having published it as a short story in the journal, Kawabata continued to write about the characters. Later on, parts of the novel eventually appeared in five different journals.

Ready Reference Treatise: Snow Country
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Plot Overview
Chapter Three: Characters
Part One
Part Two
Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Sep 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310308062

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Chapter One: Introduction

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata was first published as a short story in a literary journal in January 1935. It was later developed into a full-length novel.

The novel brought the author a lot of name and fame, ensconcing him among the foremost authors in Japan.

The novel is considered to be one of the most regarded classic works of Japanese literature.

Having published it as a short story in the journal, Kawabata continued to write about the characters. Later on, parts of the novel eventually appeared in five different journals.

At last the final part appeared in the year 1937. For the following three years, the author did not work on that story. Then he began to work on the novel, adding new chapters and got it published in two different journals, in 1940 and 1941.

He did not stop there and wrote the last two sections, mixing them into a single piece of writing. It was published in a journal in 1946. He added another piece in the year 1947.

Eventually, in 1948, the complete novel was ready to be published as it is available today. Snow Country is an integration of nine separately published works in different journals.

The original Japanese title