Author: Tanizaki Junichiro
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Some prefer nettles
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Quicksand
The voice is insistent, attractive, persuasive – the voice of a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. Sonoko Kakiuchi’s story, however, is unsettlingly at odds with her image. It is a tale of infatuation and deceit, of deliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko’s mild-mannered lawyer husband. And at its center – seducing,…
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A cat, a man, and two women : stories
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The secret history of the Lord of Musashi ; and, Arrowroot
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Childhood years : a memoir
Set against the modernization of Japan and World War II, the personal diary of Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s early years offers a moving look at one of Japan’s modern novelists.
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The reed cutter and Captain Shigemoto’s mother : two novellas
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In praise of shadows
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Ashikari and The story of Shunkin : modern Japanese novels
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Naomi
Chronicles the obsessive love of Joji, an engineer in his thirties, for a fifteen-year-old bar hostess who reminds him of Mary Pickford.
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The key ; and, Diary of a mad old man
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.