The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother: Two Novellas
Two Novellas
$34.40
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
24 June 1995
Summary
With a precision and brilliance unmatched perhaps by any other novelist of the twentieth century, Junichiro Tanizaki interweaves a sense of his country’s deep past with the kind of pathologies and obsessions we are likely to think of as modern. Here, in two eerie and beautiful novellas, he displays this skill at its most elegant and affecting.
The Reed Cutter has a contemporary setting, though it might have taken place any time in the past thousand years. On a fine September …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679757917 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679757910 |
| Author: | Jun'ichiro Tanizaki |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 24 June 1995 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 132mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Vintage International (Paperback) |
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Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Junichiro Tanizaki was born in Tokyo in 1886 and lived there until the earthquake of 1923. He then moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region, the setting for his novel The Makioka Sisters (1943-48).
Among his other notable 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)
- Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961)
By 1930, Tanizaki had achieved such significant recognition that an edition of his complete works was published.
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