The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother: Two Novellas - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Junichiro TanizakiSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:1995-06-24Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679757917ISBN-10:679757910UPC:9780679757917Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:7.99 x 5.21 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.4894Product ID:SCY1KSRZGB
The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother: Two Novellas
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...
Series: Vintage International
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679757917ISBN-10:679757910UPC:9780679757917Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:7.99 x 5.21 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.4894Product ID:SCY1KSRZGB
Junichiro Tanizaki was born in Tokyo in 1886 and lived there until the earthquake of 1923, when he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region, the scene of his novel The Makioka Sisters (1943-48). Among his 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...
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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