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One of japans most distinguished novelists, he published his first stories while he was still in high school, graduating from tokyo imperial university in 1924. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible master and a younger, more modern challenger, yasunari kawabata captured the. The master of go by yasunari kawabata speaks to the tension between the old guard and the new. The shortshort stories of yasunari kawabata and the implicit autobiographical nature of his early work, and all the newspapercolumnlength chapters of what would invariably, serialized and subsequently amended become his novels, are all the perfect precursors for the master of go, a zen masters journalistic espnstyle appreciation and up.
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