Junichiro Tanizaki - Böcker

A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against ...

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I denna klassiska essä försvarar Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) den traditionella japanska estetiken och levnadssättet mot det västerländska. Det kalla, genomträngande elektriska ljuset ställs mot en oljelampas mjuka sken i ett dunkelt, skuggfyllt...

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An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade...I'd put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century' David Mitchell 'A near-perfect novel' Hanya Yanagihara In the years leading up to the Second Worl...

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The Maids, Tanizaki's final novel, sparkles like a jewel. Over the yearsbefore, during, and after WWIImany women work in the pampered, elegant household of the famous author Chikura Raikichi, his wife, and her younger sister. Though the famil...

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An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and wome...

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Hailed as the greatest Japanese novel of the Twentieth century, THE MAKIOKA SISTERS is a subtle tale of domestic oppression worthy of Balzac or Chekhov, In this saga of the once prosperous but now declining Makioka family struggling to marry off o...

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An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets...

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These two short novels, published in the early 1930's ranked high in Tanizaki's own estimation of his work. The contrast is stark, but in their controlled complexities of tone, both bear the unmistakable stamp of Tanizaki's hand. Th...

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Na-o-mi. The three syllables of this name, unusual in 1920s Japan, captivate a 28-year-old engineer, who soon becomes infatuated with the girl so named, a teenaged cafe waitress. Drawn to her Eurasian features and innocent demeanor, Joji is eager ...

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Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. ...

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The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce. Misako's father believes their relationship has been damaged by the influence of a ...

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While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his growing desire for his beautiful daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, Westernised dancer with a shady past. Shin...

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This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's desires...until the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diar...

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A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy and deceit, and a Japanese classic Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady in an uninspiring marriage. When she decides to take an art class in town she meets the extraordinary Mitsuko,...

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From the renowned author of "The Makioka Sisters" come two slyly witty and psychologically sophisticated novels of sexual and romantic obsession. Tanizaki reimagines the exploits of a legendary 16th century samurai as a sadomasochistic d...

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Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (18861965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, and Two Women; and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The four stories in this volume date from the first and second decades of Taniza...

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The decadent tales in this collection span 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japans master storyteller, Tanizaki Junichiro (18861965), the author of Naomi, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Makioka Sisters. Made accessible in English by t...

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In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Junichir (18861965) takes a meandering look back on his early life in Tokyo. He reflects on his upbringing, family, and the capital city with ...

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Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (18861965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, and Two Women; and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The four stories in this volume date from the first and second decades of Taniza...

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The decadent tales in this collection span 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japans master storyteller, Tanizaki Junichiro (18861965), the author of Naomi, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Makioka Sisters. Made accessible in English by t...

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In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Junichir (18861965) takes a meandering look back on his early life in Tokyo. He reflects on his upbringing, family, and the capital city with ...

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In "The Reed Cutter", the narrator meets a strange man who tells him a story of obsession; and a tenth-century Kyoto minister demands and receives his rival's wife during a drunken party in "Captain Shigemoto's Mother".

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From one of the greatest writers of twentieth-century Japan comes a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession. The voice--cultured, ingenuous, and with a touch of coquetterie--is that of Sonoko Kakiuchi, an Osaka lady of good fami...

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In these seven stories, the author of The Makioka Sisters explores the territory where love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of refined cruelty.

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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) "From the Hardcover edition."

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The three pieces in this collection-the novella "A Cat, A Man, and Two Women" and two shorter pieces "The Little Kingdom" and "Professor Rado"-are lighthearted and entertaining variations on one of Tanizaki's favorite...

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A major discovery: Tanizaki's wonderful final novel--now in English

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One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely able to contain his excitement, Sonomura claims that he has cracked a secret cryptographic code based on...

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These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all. In The Key," "a middle-aged professor plies his wife of thirty years with ...

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Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With ...

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