This novella and two short stories are linked by their comic realism. All three are variations on a theme - dominance and submission in private relationships. The "man" in the title piece is a spoiled, self-indulgent caught in a war between his ex-wife, her wilful successor and a cat.

A Cat, a Man, and Two Women

Tanizaki,Junichiro

Flamingo

An essay on aesthetics. It explores architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.

In Praise of Shadows

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Vintage Classics

Diary of a Mad Old Man (Vintage Classics) [Paperback] [Sep 07, 2000] Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Contemporary

Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. But her story is unsettlingly at odds with her image. it is a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko's mild-mannered husband. At is centre - seductive, manipulating, enslaving - is one of Tanizaki's most extraordinary characters, the beautiful and corrupt art student Mitsuko.

Quicksand

Humor & Satire

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Excellent condition book and cover, book has aged/tanning pages and a few age spots on the first few pages, otherwise, pages are clean. Binding is tight, spine is without creases. We carefully wrap and ship your book within 24 hours of order. (j-32)

Some Prefer Nettles (Picador Books)

Tuttle

From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi, Junichir Tanizaki reimagines the exploits of a legendary samurai as a sadomasochistic dance between the hero and the wife of his enemy. Arrowroot, though set in the twentieth century, views an adult orphan’s search for his mother’s past through the translucent shoji screen of ancient literature and myth. Both works are replete with shocking juxtapositions. Severed heads become objects of erotic fixation. Foxes take on human shape. An aristocratic lady loves and pities the man she is conspiring to destroy. This supple translation reveals the full scope of Tanizaki’s gift: his confident storytelling, luminous detail, and astonishingly vital female characters.

The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot: Two Novels

Chambers, Anthony H.

United States

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Junichiro Tanizaki’s Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.

Naomi

Dramas & Plays

Vintage

Chronicles the obsessive love of Joji, an engineer in his thirties, for a fifteen-year-old bar hostess who reminds him of Mary Pickford

KNOPF

Four sisters of a respected Japanese family find different ways to cope with the harsh realities of life in postwar Japan

Makioka Sisters

History & Criticism

Perigee Trade

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A Cat, a Man, and Two Women

In Praise of Shadows

Diary of a Mad Old Man (Vintage Classics) [Paperback] [Sep 07, 2000] Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Quicksand

In Praise of Shadows

Some Prefer Nettles (Picador Books)

The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot: Two Novels

Naomi

Naomi

Makioka Sisters