Pynchon & Japanese influences WAS Re: NP: a super dooper scary movie

[pynchonoid]

Kawabata Yasunari, the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese
author mentioned by Pynchon in his introduction to
_Stone Junction_, is very good at working the ghostly
into his novels, where it erupts in a 20th century
Japanese that has drifted considerably from its
traditional moorings. One of Kawabata's creepiest, and
most beautiful, is _House of Sleeping Beauties_, a
novel I think you might like, Mark, judging from the
description I found of Kwaidan at Amazon.com (I
haven't seen the movie yet); very Pynchonlike -- I'm
thinking here of Rebekah's haunting of Mason -- in the
way the protagonist's past lovers haunt him in the
novel's present time.  The best-known English
translation, by long-time Tokyo resident Edward
Seidensticker, is fluid, and, my Japanese friends tell
me, very true to the original.

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