THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING IN YASUNARI KAWABATA’S “SNOW COUNTRY”
THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING IN YASUNARI KAWABATA’S “SNOW COUNTRY”

Summary/Abstract: The literary text is the space where human language reaches the peak of its functionality, where language as logos semantikos fully manifests its creative possibilities. Our paper is an attempt to analyse the way in which linguistic meaning is constructed in Kawabata’s famous novel Yukiguni (Snow Country). The meaning of a text and especially the meaning of a literary text represents much more than the sum of the meanings of its composing elements. We search for relations that go deeper than the mere syntactic combinations of words and phrases. We look at Kawabata’s text trying to identify the active networks that play a part in constructing the meaning of the novel. We refer to the original text and to its translations into Romanian and English in order to see which of the networks become active and how the activation of one or another of the networks may influence the final result of the interpretative process.

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