Word: kawabata
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more inventive than the literary imagination Its plots (Jonestown, for example) are weirdly fertile, fatally ingenious. The idly speculative Connolly list, in any case, is Premature. It requires death and time to complete the writers myth. The Japanese have a macabre genius for the process. Their best writers-Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima, for example-have established a tradition of committing suicide some time before nature forces its inevitable silence upon them...