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Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. He discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly attentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, flashy dancer with a shady past. Pitiful and ridiculous as he is, Utsugi is without a trace of self-pity, and his diary shines with self-effacing good humor. At once hilarious and of a sadness, Diary of a Mad Old Man is a brilliant depiction of the relationship between eros and the will to live -- a novel of the tragicomedy of human existence.

Translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett

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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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At once hilarious and sad, Tanizaki's last novel - written during his final illness - echoes his own life.

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  • PublisherVintage Books
  • Publication date1991
  • ISBN 10 0679730249
  • ISBN 13 9780679730248
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages177
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