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Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
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Pages: 320 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0679761071
Pub: Vintage Books
Pub date: 1997-05-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 312374
Reader Reviews:
Compelling In That Stark And Desolate Japanese Author Way (1/9 people found this helpful)
This book was a good read with a few compelling plotlines, but I didn't find Tanizaki's style particularly memorable because he so very much resembles Mishima.
Seven astonishing tales that capture my imagination forever. (4/10 people found this helpful)
This book was my traveling companion during my solo exploration around Europe for two months. When I was on the trip, this book put me in perspective about life and the living experiences. Imagine, my only traveling companion is Junichiro Tanizaki. Wonderful book.
Fire and Ice, an emotional and intellectual experience. (2/6 people found this helpful)
This book at times had me sitting on the edge of an emotional chair. Tanizaki in these tales has managed to communicate every emotion simply but clearly. For me at times it was like looking into a deep crystal clear lake, so clear every detail of the lake, to its bottom was vividly visible. It was quite a different reading experience. Sensuality is combined easily with prudence, and art, making for a simultaneously strong emotional and intellectual experience. I would definitely recommend this book to serious readers.
I found it fascinating and intriguing (0/5 people found this helpful)
Though some of the longer short stories got very tedious at parts, in the end they were worth reading. Very excellent stories to provoke thinking on human behaviors.
Beauty, Passion, Desire, Love, Sorcery, Violence, Death ... (3/4 people found this helpful)
Beautiful women, bold men, treachery, wars, rape, pillage, gruesome butchery ...the passions of the mankind are in these tales of ancient oriental tribes.
The writing is amazingly vivid. I could almost imagine a samurai jumping out of the page and plunging his sword into an enemy heart. The furtive passionate embraces are treated with a delicacy unlike the modern day novels where sex is like brushing one's teeth.
The apt analogy I can think of in the context of these stories are the celebrated movies by Kurosawa wherein the passions are not sterilized for the comfort of the watcher.
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