Seven Japanese Tales
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (829 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679761071 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was awarded Japan’s Imperial Prize in Literature in 1949, and in 1965 he became the first Japanese writer to be elected as an honorary member of the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Tanizaki died in 1965. The author of over twenty books, including Naomi
Strange and wonderful? The author of The Makioka Sisters, Junichiro Tanizaki, writes seven stories of human relationships. Loving, twisted, but very human relationships. Like most Japanese stories, his focus is on the characters not the plot. The characters tell us tales of horror, beauty and incest. Tradition . Five Stars Excellent. C. E. Stevens said Different Facets of a Gifted Writer. This collection of stories was my first exposure to Tanizaki, and I admit I was pleasantly surprised by the stories I read in "Seven Japanese Tales." Given the time period that he did most of his writing in (pre-war and wartime Japan), I did not anticipate the highly controversial subject
It would be hard to exaggerate the sensuous beauty which pervades these stories.” —Newsweek. “Tanizaki was meticulous in language, scandalously cautious about sexual politics, masterful in storytelling.” —The Nation “At once strange and intimately moving, unfamiliar and yet filled with unmistakable emotions
A tattooist turns the body of an exquisite young girl into a reflection of her predatory inner nature. Shocking in its content and lyrical in its beauty, these stories represent some of the finest work of one of Japan’s greatest modern writers.. Junichiro Tanizaki’s Seven Japanese Tales collects stories that explore the boundary at which love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of voluptuous cruelty. A beautiful blind musician exacts the ultimate sacrifice from the man who is both her disciple and her lover. A young man is erotically imprisoned by memories of his absent mother