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Scintillating, elegant, darkly comic, The Key is the story of a dying marriage, told in the form of parallel diaries. After nearly thirty years of marriage, a dried-up, middle-aged professor frenziedly strives for new heights of carnal pleasure with his repressed, dissatisfied wife, resorting to stimulants galore for her: brandy, a handsome young lover. During the day, they record their adventures of the previous night. When they begin to suspect each other of peeping into their respective diaries, it becomes unclear whether each spouse's confessions might not be intended for the other's eyes.
Translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett.
Translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett.
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"A story about sex and marriage that is as explicit as any novel on the theme since Lady Chatterley's Lover" (Time)
"At once sensational and serious... a middle-aged man's last bout of sexual passion" (New York Times)
"That this is a work of rare art can never be in doubt" (New Statesman)
"A story about sex and marriage that is as explicit as any novel on the theme since Lady Chatterley's Lover" (The Times)
"Tanizaki tells the delicate and, in the end, frightening story with great skill...this is not a book you will soon forget" (Boston Herald)
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"At once sensational and serious... a middle-aged man's last bout of sexual passion" (New York Times)
"That this is a work of rare art can never be in doubt" (New Statesman)
"A story about sex and marriage that is as explicit as any novel on the theme since Lady Chatterley's Lover" (The Times)
"Tanizaki tells the delicate and, in the end, frightening story with great skill...this is not a book you will soon forget" (Boston Herald)
A seductive portrait of marriage and sexual passion.
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0679730230
- ISBN 13 9780679730231
- BindingPaperback
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