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(★)(Translated by Howard Hibbett／ ´NI-0548´es edicion renovada de este libro.／ In these seven stories, Tanizaki, 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. A young man is erotically imprisoned by the memory of his mother. A tattoo artist transforms the body of an exquisite woman into a teeming canvas of her inner nature. A beautiful blind musician exacts the ultimate sacrifice from the man who both her lover and her disciple. These and other gripping scenarios of possession are told with such poise that ´Seven Japanese Tales´ is guaranteed to fascinate from beginning to end, leaving a haunting impression on the reader.／ ◆Junichiroo Tanizaki (1886-1965) was born in the heart of downtown Tokyo, and studied Japanese literature at Tokyo Imperial University. His novels suggest that his student days were ostentatiously bohemian, in the fashion of the day. He lived in the cosmopolitan Tokyo area until the earthquake of 1923, when he moved to the gentler and more cultured Kyoto-Osaka region. There he became absorbed in the Japanese past, and abandoned his superficial Westernization. His most important works were written after 1923. 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.／ ▼CONTENTS／ ●A Portrait of Shunkin [Shunkinshoo, 1933, 春琴抄] ●Terror [Kyoofu, 1913, 恐怖] ●The Bridge of Dreams [Yume no ukihashi, 1959, 夢の浮橋] ●The Tattooer [Shisei, 1910, 刺青] ●The Thief [Watakushi, 1921, 私] ●Aguri [Aoi hana, 1922, 青い花] ●A Blind Man´s Tale [Moomoku monogatari, 1931, 盲目物語]) |
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