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Longing and other stories

Title: Longing and other stories / Jun'ichirō Tanizaki ; translated by Anthony H. Chambers & Paul McCarthy.
Author: Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 1886-1965
Publication: New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

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Description

145 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Weatherhead Books on Asia

Uniform Title

Weatherhead books on Asia.

Subject

Short stories, Japanese > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Short stories.

Note

Translated from the Japanese.

Contents

Longing -- Sorrows of a heretic -- The story of an unhappy mother

Call Number

JFD 22-851

ISBN

9780231202145
0231202148
9780231202152
0231202156

LCCN

2021018905

OCLC

1247838991

Author

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

Title

Longing and other stories / Jun'ichirō Tanizaki ; translated by Anthony H. Chambers & Paul McCarthy.

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Weatherhead Books on Asia

Weatherhead books on Asia.

Added Author

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

McCarthy, Paul, 1944- translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō. Longing and other stories New York : Columbia University Press, 2022 9780231554411 (DLC) 2021018906

Research Call Number

JFD 22-851

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