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(★)(Translated by Thomas J. Harper & Edward G. Seidensticker／ Titulo original : 陰翳礼賛 [In-ei Reisan]／ This eloquent work on the Japanese sense of beauty explores the subtle interplay of shade and light in several important aspects of Japanese life --architecture, drama, food, femininity, and literature-- and traces the retreat of this mature, shadowy aesthetic tradition before the brighter, more garish products of Western technology.／ Junichiro Tanizaki, one of the most eloquent Japanese novelists, leads readers through ´darkness seen by candlelight´ replete with a ´pregnancy of particles like fine ashes, each particle as luminous as a rainbow.´ His flowing, wandering meditation cannot fail to delight all lovers of the traditions of the East.／ Originally published in 1933 and 1934, ´In Praise of Shadows´ presents readers with Tanizaki´s obvious love for the traditions for which his country is renown and provided a prescient warning of the dangers those traditions face.／ ◆Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965), widely considered one of Japan´s finest modern writers, was born in Tokyo and lived there until the earthquake of 1923. In that year he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region, the setting for his great novel The Makioka Sisters. His most important novels and stories, many reflecting his taste for sexual perversity, his eye for social comedy, and his bitter humor, were written after his move to the Kansai. Tanizaki received the Imperial Prize for Literature in 1949. He was the first Japanese to be elected an Honorary Member of the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.) |
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