Research Catalog

Title

The Gourmet Club : a sextet / by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro ; translated by Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy.

Author

Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 1886-1965

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chambers, Anthony H. (Anthony Hood)
• McCarthy, Paul, 1944-

Description

177 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"The decadent tales in this collection span 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japan's master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), the author of Naomi, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Makioka Sisters. Made accessible in English by the expertise of translators Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy, the stories in The Gourmet Club vividly explore an array of human passions. In "The Children," three mischievous friends play sadomasochistic games in a mysterious Western-style mansion. The sybaritic narrator of "The Secret" experiments with cross-dressing as he savors the delights of duplicity. "The Two Acolytes" evokes the conflicting attractions of spiritual fulfillment and worldly pleasure in medieval Kyoto. In the title story, the seductive tastes, aromas, and textures of outlandish Chinese dishes blend with those of the seductive hands that proffer them to blindfolded gourmets. In "Mr. Bluemound," Tanizaki, who wrote for a film studio in the early 1920s, considers the relationship between a flesh-and-blood actress and her image fixed on celluloid, which one memorably degenerate admirer is obsessed with. And, finally, "Manganese Dioxide Dreams" offers a tantalizing insight into the author's mind as he weaves together the musings of an old man very like Tanizaki himself-Chinese and Japanese cuisine, a French murder movie, Chinese history, and the contents of a toilet bowl. These beautifully translated stories will intrigue and entertain readers who are new to Tanizaki, as well as those who have already explored the bizarre world of his imagination"--

Series Statement

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; number 81

Uniform Title

• Short stories. Selections. English
• Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 81.

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

• Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 1886-1965 > Translations into English
• Short stories, Japanese > Translations into English

Note

• Translated from the Japanese.

Contents

The children -- The secret -- The two acolytes -- The Gourmet Club -- Mr. Bluemound -- Manganese dioxide dreams.

Call Number

JFD 17-2337

ISBN

• 9780472053353
• 0472053353
• 9780472073351
• 0472073354

LCCN

2016046387

OCLC

959265464

Author

Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 1886-1965, author.

Title

The Gourmet Club : a sextet / by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro ; translated by Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy.

Publisher

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; number 81

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 81.

Added Author

Chambers, Anthony H. (Anthony Hood), translator.

McCarthy, Paul, 1944- translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-2337