Longing and Other Stories Tanizaki Junichirō.
Longing and Other Stories Tanizaki Junichirō. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics,…
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Longing and Other Stories Tanizaki Junichirō.
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. This book presents three powerful stories of family life from the first decade of Tanizaki's career that foreshadow the themes the great writer would go on to explore. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki made his literary debut in 1910.
Replete with striking natural images and uncanny human encounters, it ends with a striking revelation. "Longing" recounts the fantastic journey of a precocious young boy through an eerie nighttime landscape. "Sorrows of a Heretic" follows a university student and aspiring novelist who lives in degrading poverty in a Tokyo tenement.
Ambitious and tormented, the young man rebels against his family against
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