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    In Praise of Shadows

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country’s greatest novelists. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists.

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    The Key

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki,Tanizaki Jun'ichiro

    Presents a tale of a middle-aged man deeply in love with his younger wife. In spite of that love, they have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other’s thoughts…

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    A Cat, A Man, And Two Women

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    The novella and two short stories in this lucid translation reveal Tanizaki at both his best and his most bizarre

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    The Siren’s Lament

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    A new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasy

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    The Makioka Sisters

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    Tanizaki’s masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life…

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    Some Prefer Nettles

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce.

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    Quicksand

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. This work presents a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko’s mild-mannered…

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    The Makioka Sisters

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    This tale of domestic oppression centres on the once prosperous, now declining, Makiota family which is struggling to marry off one of their daughters. A portrait of a family and…

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    Childhood Years: A Memoir

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) takes a meandering look back on his early life in Tokyo. He reflects…

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    Childhood Years: A Memoir

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) takes a meandering look back on his early life in Tokyo. He reflects…

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    The Tattooer

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    The Tattooer is the first publish work by Junichiro Tanizaki, one of the major authors in the modern Japanese tradition. In the story, a tattoo artist inscribes a giant spider…

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    The Secret History Of The Lord Of Musashi

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    These two short novels, published in the early 1930’s ranked high in Tanizaki’s own estimation of his work.

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    Diary of a Mad Old Man

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    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…

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    Gold & Silver

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    This volume includes four short stories and three novellas by the acclaimed Japanese novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki. These early works were published in the Jun'ichiro Tanizaki edition of "Japanese Detective Novels"…

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    The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all.

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    In Black and White: A Novel

    Jun'ichiro. Tanizaki

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki’s In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno has penned a story about the…

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    In Black and White: A Novel

    Jun'ichiro. Tanizaki

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki’s In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno has penned a story about the…

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    Longing and Other Stories

    Jun'ichiro. Tanizaki

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century. This book presents three powerful stories of family from the first decade of Tanizaki’s career. Written…

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    Longing and Other Stories

    Jun'ichiro. Tanizaki

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century. This book presents three powerful stories of family from the first decade of Tanizaki’s career. Written…

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    Memoir of Forgetting the Capital

    Jun'ichiro. Tanizaki

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) was one of the most renowned and popular modern Japanese authors and a major literary figure. Though he is best known for his postwar novels, such as…

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    Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro on Cinema and Oriental  Aesthetics

    Thomas LaMarre

    The impact of media and technologies has renewed interest in the emergence of cinema and film criticism. Through the translation and analysis of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro’s film work, this work provides…

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    The Grand Old Man and the Great Tradition: Essays on Tanizaki Jun'ichiro in Honor of Adriana Boscaro

    Luisa Bienati,Bonaventura Ruperti

    Collects nine assessments of Tanizaki’s relationship with the classical literary tradition, in honor of the contributions of one of the great modernist’s most tireless scholars

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    The Gourmet Club: A Sextet

    Tanizaki Jun'ichiro

    Six short stories by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), capturing the breadth of his literary oeuvre

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    The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature: Materiality in the Visual Register as Narrated by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Abe Kobo, Horie Toshiyuki and Kanai Mieko

    Atsuko Sakaki

    Through close reading of photography-inspired texts by Tanizaki, Abe, Horie and Kanai, The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature by Atsuko Sakaki examines the Japanese literary engagement with photography…

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