"Fathers ate sour grapes, and the children's teeth are misaligned" - a biblical quote that surprisingly accurately conveys the "upper", "story" layer of the novel by Yasunari Kawabata "Thousand-winged crane" . The Story of the Nervous , Reflexing Young Man Kikuji , One of the mistresses of the deceased father is obsessively trying to replace his mother and match the bride. For some reason, someone else is having an affair with him ,. And he falls in love with her daughter ,. Tested by , In turn, , Difficult and ambiguous feelings about him , In the performance of the Western author would give a lot of comedy , , , [ but Kawabata was Japanese, Therefore, its imbued with national symbolism (in which the through images of the crane and the tea ceremony are only the most obvious) and numerous allusions and references to the masterpieces of the Heian and samurai era, the novel was and remains one of the most brilliant. aristocratically refined and ambiguous works of the past century.