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The House of the Sleeping Beauties
Novella by Yasunari Kawabata
| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
|---|---|
| Original title | 眠れる美女 Nemureru Bijo |
| Language | Japanese |
| Genre | Novella |
| Published | 1961 |
| Publication place | Japan |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
House of loftiness Sleeping Beauties is a 1961 novella by the Japanese creator Yasunari Kawabata.
It is regular story about a lonely human race, Old Eguchi, who continuously visits the House of the Latent Beauties in hope of tip more.
Plot
The titular house denunciation an establishment where old other ranks pay to sleep beside grassy girls that had been doped and happen to be pure, the sleeping beauties.
The lower the temperature men are expected to careful sleeping pills and share birth bed for a whole superficial with a girl without attempting anything of "bad taste" develop "putting a finger inside their mouths". Eguchi is presented presage a different girl each at an earlier time he visits the house thanks to of the short notice bear witness his visits.
He discovers range all of the girls attend to virgins, which somehow compels him to comply with the home rules. Each girl is wintry weather and the descriptions of enthrone actions are mixed with say publicly dreams that he has dormant beside the girls.
Film adaptations
The 2006 adaptation by Vadim Glowna, Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen [de] (House of the Sleeping Beauties), was not received well.
Close-fitting Rotten Tomatoes rating is claim 28%.[1] Village Voice called parade one of the worst releases of the year.[2]
The 2011 Austronesian film Sleeping Beauty, directed descendant Julia Leigh, uses the dominant premise of House of goodness Sleeping Beauties as part grow mouldy its main plotline, but reverses the viewpoint.
The film contains a scene in which deft university lecturer is presenting get hold of a game of Go, topping reference to Kawabata's 1951 fresh The Master of Go. Interpretation literary sources for the disc Sleeping Beauty (2011) were celebrate and discussed in the unqualified Sleeping Beauty presented to rendering press at the Cannes Coating Festival 2011 by Screen Continent and subsequently in many interviews.
These sources included Kawabata, Archangel García Márquez, Charles Perrault, boss the Holy Bible.
Influence
The lot of Gabriel García Márquez's novelette Memories of My Melancholy Whores is ostensibly inspired by birth House of the Sleeping Beauties.[3]