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About House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories. Three surreal, erotically charged stories from Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. In the three long tales in this collection, Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. Piercing examinations of sexuality and human psychology—and works of remarkable subtlet
Yasunari Kawabata's 1961 novella, The House of Sleeping Beauties is perhaps the most refined of his own sui generis genre of esoteric erotica. An elderly man becomes a habitue of a house of very particular and distanced fetish: the girls he spends the night with are drugged into a deep sleep.
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Its starting point is the novel by the Japanese author and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961). The novel tells the story of old Eguchi in a strange and tender brothel, where elderly men can spend the night and snuggle up against the warm bodies of very young girls drugged by sleeping pills.
Jul 14, 2020 · Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their deep sleep, he delves into the mystery of the house of sleeping beauties. Product details Package Dimensions : 7.56 x 5.31 x 0.71 inches; 2.61 ounces
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Nov 14, 2008 · Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their deep sleep, he delves into the mystery of the house of sleeping beauties. Based on the beautifully strange novella by Yasunari Kawabata, acclaimed writer-director Vadim Glowna has crafted a mysterious thriller about loneliness, sex, eroticism and ...
Jul 22, 2010 · The first and longest tale in the collection is the title story: “House of the Sleeping Beauties”. It finishes at just under 100 pages, so it’s more a novella than short story.
Nov 12, 2008 · House of the Sleeping Beauties. Based on an acclaimed novella by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata, the film is one of those self-consciously atmospheric literary adaptations that suffer from a ...
