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Influential japanese novelist yasunari kawabata has constructed an autobiography through his fiction with this new collection of stories that parallel major events and themes in his life. Hitlers book club the house of the sleeping beauties by. My actions are fair use and mostly belong to the realm of very freaky humour. The story is truly bizarre, but then, there was a fair amount of that in 60s japanese literature. With vadim glowna, angela winkler, maximilian schell, birol unel. The main attraction is the novella house of the sleeping beauties, one of kawabatas most famous pieces and one that has been adapted into multiple films, most recently australian filmmaker julia leighs 2011 sleeping beauty.
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