“Mountain Noise” was published in 1954 for the first time and it is a novel that fully reflects that captivating spirit that Yasunari Kawabata uniquely possessed in modern Japanese literature... It is a poem of praise for everything that is human in the universe and for any aspect that ultimately ends up being the credit and strength of man. And its continuation. It is also the novel that bears more than any other work Kawabata’s artistic uniqueness: the rhythmic narrative language that rises only slightly above the level of ordinary daily conversation or spontaneous spontaneous “chat” and the dramatic fragmentation of the secondary topic into a series of episodes that create a surprising mass of a single seemingly simple event. Its appearance but it is complex in its hidden substructure and the structure of the novel chapter is divided into two coexisting dimensions: the natural incident (the mistress’ fetus the divorced daughter’s neurosis Kikuko’s aborted child) and the natural symbol (the snake’s egg the parasitic yatsude plant the newborn pine tree). It is Yasunari Kawabatas document in the face of the storm targeting human humanity and it is a testimony summed up by a Buddhist prayer that the old man Ogata Shingo remembers in a mystical moment: Here you have found what is unheard of. Here you have heard what is unheard.