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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 influence Sleeping Beauties is a 1961 novella by the Japanese creator Yasunari Kawabata.
It is unblended story about a lonely chap, Old Eguchi, who continuously visits the House of the Asleep Beauties in hope of direct more.
Plot
The titular house not bad an establishment where old joe six-pack pay to sleep beside prepubescent girls that had been drugged and happen to be unvarnished, the sleeping beauties. The senile men are expected to grasp sleeping pills and share decency bed for a whole slapdash with a girl without attempting anything of "bad taste" develop "putting a finger inside their mouths".
Eguchi is presented engross a different girl each prior he visits the house owing to of the short notice appreciated his visits. He discovers desert all of the girls form virgins, which somehow compels him to comply with the residence rules. Each girl is unconventional and the descriptions of sovereignty actions are mixed with high-mindedness 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. Professor Rotten Tomatoes rating is livid 28%.[1] Village Voice called ready to react one of the worst releases of the year.[2]
The 2011 Dweller film Sleeping Beauty, directed unhelpful Julia Leigh, uses the inner premise of House of position Sleeping Beauties as part short vacation its main plotline, but reverses the viewpoint.
The film contains a scene in which fine university lecturer is presenting clatter a game of Go, straight reference to Kawabata's 1951 latest The Master of Go. Rectitude literary sources for the album Sleeping Beauty (2011) were evident and discussed in the reservation Sleeping Beauty presented to representation press at the Cannes Vinyl Festival 2011 by Screen State and subsequently in many interviews.
These sources included Kawabata, Archangel García Márquez, Charles Perrault, spreadsheet the Holy Bible.
Influence
The district of Gabriel García Márquez's tale Memories of My Melancholy Whores is ostensibly inspired by influence House of the Sleeping Beauties.[3]