Abstract

BASSOLS RICARDEZ, Mario Federico. Geography of a novel. Yasunari Kawabata's Kioto. Soc. ambient. [online]. 2016, n.12, pp.31-59. ISSN 2007-6576.

The novel's geography emphasizes on the space in drawing up literary plot. On the one hand, the present paper set out Franco Moretti's and James Kneale's thesis in order to highlight the human experience and their world representations in literary fiction. On the second hand, it analyses the Yasunari Kawabata's novel about Kioto, which is dramatized in Japan's post war period. In such work, the main characters interact with the space in a city provided by milenary traditions, plenty of temples, sanctuaries and gardens; surrounded by forests and crossing by rivers. The main conclusions recover the subjectivity, the textures by imagined space, and a hypothetical kinetics of the text.

Keywords : Kioto; landscape; Kawabata; Moretti; Kneale; kinetic text; geoliterature.