Using a traditional, informal essay style, Tanizaki retrieves his childhood years in roughly chronological order and through deeply affecting character sketches, hilarious anecdotes and images of sensuous beauty, the texture of life in the Shitamachi area of Tokyo at the end of the 19th century. The main themes of his fiction are echoed in his memoir: the dominant mother figure, cruel destructive women, geisha girls, and the male actors who play female characters in the Kabuki theatre - one of Tanizaki's major interests. ...
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Using a traditional, informal essay style, Tanizaki retrieves his childhood years in roughly chronological order and through deeply affecting character sketches, hilarious anecdotes and images of sensuous beauty, the texture of life in the Shitamachi area of Tokyo at the end of the 19th century. The main themes of his fiction are echoed in his memoir: the dominant mother figure, cruel destructive women, geisha girls, and the male actors who play female characters in the Kabuki theatre - one of Tanizaki's major interests. Some of his novels available in English include "The Makioka Sisters", "Naomi", "Some Prefer Nettles" and "The Key".
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 1st Printing. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. pp. 182. xiii, 182 pp. First printing thus. Some pages are creased at the tips of the fore-corners from having been dog-eared. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. Translated from the Japanese by Paul McCarthy.
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. Fine/Fine This is the first UK edition. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear-contains no tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: literature; ISBN: 0002153254. ISBN/EAN: 9780002153256. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8869.
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