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Junichiro Tanizaki s "Some Prefer Nettles" is an exquisitely nuanced exploration of the allure of ancient Japanese tradition and the profound disquiet that accompanied its passing.
It is the 1920s in Tokyo, and Kaname and his wife Misako are trapped in a parody of a progressive Western marriage. No longer attracted to one another, they have long since stopped sleeping together and Kaname has sanctioned his wife s liaisons with another man. But at the heart of their arrangement lies a sadness that impels Kaname to take refuge in the past, in the serene rituals of the classical puppet theater and in a growing fixation with his father-in-law s mistress. "Some Prefer Nettles" is an ethereally suggestive, psychologically complex exploration of the crisis every culture faces as it hurtles headfirst into modernity."
It is the 1920s in Tokyo, and Kaname and his wife Misako are trapped in a parody of a progressive Western marriage. No longer attracted to one another, they have long since stopped sleeping together and Kaname has sanctioned his wife s liaisons with another man. But at the heart of their arrangement lies a sadness that impels Kaname to take refuge in the past, in the serene rituals of the classical puppet theater and in a growing fixation with his father-in-law s mistress. "Some Prefer Nettles" is an ethereally suggestive, psychologically complex exploration of the crisis every culture faces as it hurtles headfirst into modernity."
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Review:
"Tanizaki writes with an unabashed sensuality."
--John Updike
"Japan's great modern novelist, [Tanizaki] created a lifelong series of ingenious variations on a dominant theme: the power of love to energize and destroy."
--"Chicago Tribune"
Tanizaki writes with an unabashed sensuality.
John Updike
Japan s great modern novelist, [Tanizaki] created a lifelong series of ingenious variations on a dominant theme: the power of love to energize and destroy.
"Chicago Tribune""
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--John Updike
"Japan's great modern novelist, [Tanizaki] created a lifelong series of ingenious variations on a dominant theme: the power of love to energize and destroy."
--"Chicago Tribune"
Tanizaki writes with an unabashed sensuality.
John Updike
Japan s great modern novelist, [Tanizaki] created a lifelong series of ingenious variations on a dominant theme: the power of love to energize and destroy.
"Chicago Tribune""
A powerful, autobiographical work set in 1920s Tokyo and Osaka
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- PublisherMartin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0436516039
- ISBN 13 9780436516030
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages160
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