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Seven Japanese Tales by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Category: Western
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.
Some Prefer Nettles by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Category: Fiction
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 new and alien culture, and so attempts to heal the breach by e ...Show more
The Gourmet Club by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Category: Fiction | Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
The decadent tales in this collection span 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japan's master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro- (1886-1965), the author of Naomi, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Makioka Sisters. Made accessible in English by the expertise of translators Anthony H. Chambers and P ...Show more
The Key by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
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 diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. Ikuko realise ...Show more
The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Category: Fiction
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 any number of stimulants, from brandy to a handsome young lover, in o ...Show more
The Maids by Junichiro Tanizaki
Category: Fiction
The Maids is a jewel: an astonishing complement to The Makioka Sisters, set in the same house, in the same turbulent decades, but among the servants as much as the masters. The Maids concerns all the young women who work before, during, and after WWII in the pampered, elegant household of the famous aut ...Show more
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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 surgical precision, Tanizaki lays bare the sinews of prid ...Show more
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser.
'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 World War, four sisters live in dilapidated houses in Osaka and Ashiya, and eac ...Show more
The Makioka Sisters by Edward G. (TRN) Jun'Ichiro; Seidensticker Tanizaki
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics S.
The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Edward Seidensticker (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of the extinction of a great family through pride and over-refinement. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With surgical realism and precision, Tanizaki lays bare the sinews of ...Show more
The Siren's Lament - Essential Stories by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Bryan Karetnyk (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasy
Vintage Classics: The Secret History Of The Lord Of Musashi by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Two short novels, published initially in the 1930s. "Musashi" deals with the dark obsessions of a 16th-century warlord. "Arrowroot" also touches on the pursuit of legend, but in a different mode, that of the uniquely Japanese form of the "essay" novel.