The House of the Sleeping Beauties
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House of the Sleeping Beauties is a novella by Nobel Prize winning author Yasunari Kawabata.
A story about a lonely man, Old Eguchi continuously visits the House of the Sleeping Beauties in hopes of something more.
The titular house is a brothel where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of "bad taste" like "putting a finger inside their mouths". Eguchi is presented with a different girl each time he visits the house because of the short notice of his visits. He discovers that all girls are virgins which somehow compels him to comply with the house rules. Each girl is different and the descriptions of his actions are mixed with the dreams that he has sleeping besides the girls.
Categories:
- 1961 novels
- Novels by Yasunari Kawabata
- Novellas
- 1960s novel stubs
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