Yukiguni (Kadokawa Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Shimamura, a man of inactivity, revisits a hot spring resort in the snow country to meet Komako. Komako is working as a geisha to pay for the medical care of a man she does not like, who is rumored to be her lover. Komako is passionately devoted to Shimamura, whom she has not seen since that one night in early summer, but to Shimamura, Komako is only a geisha. Shimamura is also interested in Yoko, a woman he met on a train ride to Snow Country... A man ruthlessly defending "the solitude of idleness" and a woman's pure love for him. A representative work of the author's middle period that depicts the sorrows of life.

無為徒食の男、島村は、駒子に会うために雪国の温泉場を再訪した。駒子はいいなずけと噂される好きでもない男の療養費のために芸者をしている。初夏の一夜以来、久々に会えた島村に駒子は一途な情熱を注ぐが、島村にとって駒子はあくまで芸者。島村は雪国への汽車で会った女、葉子にも興味を抱いていて...。「無為の孤独」を非情に守る男と、男に思いを寄せる女の純情。人生の悲哀を描いた著者中期の代表作。