4 results for '"Junichiro Tanizaki"'

A hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion—from a master Japanese novelist.   When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage...

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...

Junichirō Tanizaki’s magisterial evocation of a proud Osaka family in decline during the years immediately before World War II is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century and a...

"Tanizaki writes with an unabashed sensuality. Even his lighter-hearted fictions...make us hold our breath, and the endings don't let us quite exhale." --John Updike in The New Yorker "Tanizaki's...