Diary of a Mad Old Man - Softcover
While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his growing desire for his beautiful daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, Westernised dancer with a shady past. Shining with a self-effacing humour, Tanizaki's last novel is a tragicomedy about desire and the will to survive.
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"Wonderful" (Hanif Kureshi Independent)
"His work is unclassifiable: by turns outre and dignified, passionate in its embrace of all things Western and eloquent in its memorializing of the traditional Japanese aesthetic, lightly comic, lyrically evocative and savagely cruel. In a land reputedly inhospitable to the individualist, it demands attention and has earned Tanizaki an undisputed place in the pantheon of 20th-century Japanese literature." (New York Times)
"An artistic masterpiece" (Irish Times)
"A writer of wicked subtlety and grace" (Sunday Times)
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"His work is unclassifiable: by turns outre and dignified, passionate in its embrace of all things Western and eloquent in its memorializing of the traditional Japanese aesthetic, lightly comic, lyrically evocative and savagely cruel. In a land reputedly inhospitable to the individualist, it demands attention and has earned Tanizaki an undisputed place in the pantheon of 20th-century Japanese literature." (New York Times)
"An artistic masterpiece" (Irish Times)
"A writer of wicked subtlety and grace" (Sunday Times)
At once hilarious and sad, Tanizaki's last novel - written during his final illness - echoes his own life.
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- PublisherVintage Classics
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0099285193
- ISBN 13 9780099285199
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- Number of pages192
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