The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother: Two Novellas - Hardcover

Tanizaki, Junichiro

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067942010X ISBN 13: 9780679420101

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1994

Synopsis

In "The Reed Cutter", the narrator meets a strange man who tells him a story of obsession, and a tenth-century Kyoto minister demands and receives his rival's wife during a drunken party in "Captain Shigemoto's Mother"

About this title

About the Author:

Junichiro Tanizaki was born in Tokyo in 1886 and lived there until the earthquake of 1923, when he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region, the scene of his novel The Makioka Sisters (1943-48). Among his works are Naomi (1924), Some Prefer Nettles (1928), Quicksand (1930), Arrowroot (1931), A Portrait of Shunkin (1933), The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi (1935), modern versions of The Tale of Genji (1941, 1954, and 1965), Captain Shigemoto's Mother (1949), The Key (1956), and Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961). By 1930 he had gained such renown that an edition of his complete works was published, and he was awarded Japan's Imperial Prize in Literature in 1949. Tanizaki died in 1965.

From the Back Cover:

One of the great novelists of the twentieth century, Junichiro Tanizaki wrote about love--and sex--with a breathtaking suppleness of style and a vast depth of literary allusion. In these two novellas, brilliantly translated by Anthony H. Chambers and appearing in paperback for the first time, Tanizaki probes the translucent screen that separates idealized yearning from humiliating obsession in a society of impenetrable decorum.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 067942010X
• ISBN 13: 9780679420101
• Binding: Hardcover