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Longing and Other Stories

Longing and Other Stories

McCarthy, Paul
Tanizaki, Jun'ichir&#333.
Chambers, Anthony

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0231202148
ISBN13: 9780231202145
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jan 4 2022
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki made his literary debut in 1910. This book presents three powerful stories of family life from the first decade of Tanizaki's career that foreshadow the themes the great writer would go on to explore.

Longing recounts the fantastic journey of a precocious young boy through an eerie nighttime landscape. Replete with striking natural images and uncanny human encounters, it ends with a striking revelation. Sorrows of a Heretic follows a university student and aspiring novelist who lives in degrading poverty in a Tokyo tenement. Ambitious and tormented, the young man rebels against his family against a backdrop of sickness and death. The Story of an Unhappy Mother describes a vivacious but self-centered woman's drastic transformation after a freak accident involving her son and daughter-in-law. Written in different genres, the three stories are united by a focus on mothers and sons and a concern for Japan's traditional culture in the face of Westernization. The longtime Tanizaki translators Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy masterfully bring these important works to an Anglophone audience.

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