Seven Japanese Tales by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (1996, Trade Paperback)

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

0679761071

9780679761075

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Seven Japanese Tales

320 Pages

English

1996

Short Stories (Single Author), Literary

Fiction

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Vintage International Ser.

Trade Paperback

0.7 in

9.2 Oz

8 in

5.2 in

Trade

96-007175

"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, "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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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.

PL839.A7A26 1996