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Seven Japanese Tales by Junichiro Tanizaki

Seven Japanese Tales

By Junichiro Tanizaki

By Junichiro Tanizaki

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Oct 01, 1996 | ISBN 9780679761075

Seven Japanese Tales by Junichiro Tanizaki
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Oct 01, 1996 | ISBN 9780679761075

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About Seven Japanese Tales

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 tattooist turns the body of an exquisite young girl into a reflection of her predatory inner nature. A young man is erotically imprisoned by memories of his absent mother. 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.

About Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki was born in Tokyo in 1886 and lived in the city until the earthquake of 1923, when he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region, the scene of one of his most well-known novels, The Makioka Sisters (1943-48). The author… More about Junichiro Tanizaki

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction

Paperback | $17.00
Published by Vintage
Oct 01, 1996 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679761075

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Praise

“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. It would be hard to exaggerate the sensuous beauty which pervades these stories.”
—Newsweek

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