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Synopsis
The decadent tales in this collection span 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japan’s master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro¯ (1886–1965), the author of Naomi, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Makioka Sisters. Made accessible in English by the expertise of translators Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy, the stories in The Gourmet Club vividly explore an array of human passions. In “The Children,” three mischievous friends play sadomasochistic games in a mysterious Western-style mansion. The sybaritic narrator of “The Secret” experiments with cross-dressing as he savors the delights of duplicity. “The Two Acolytes” evokes the conflicting attractions of spiritual fulfillment and worldly pleasure in medieval Kyoto. In the title story, the seductive tastes, aromas, and textures of outlandish Chinese dishes blend with those of the seductive hands that proffer them to blindfolded gourmets. In “Mr. Bluemound,” Tanizaki, who wrote for a film studio in the early 1920s, considers the relationship between a flesh-and-blood actress and her image fixed on celluloid, which one memorably degenerate admirer is obsessed with. And, finally, “Manganese Dioxide Dreams” offers a tantalizing insight into the author’s mind as he weaves together the musings of an old man very like Tanizaki himself-Chinese and Japanese cuisine, a French murder movie, Chinese history, and the contents of a toilet bowl. These beautifully translated stories will intrigue and entertain readers who are new to Tanizaki, as well as those who have already explored the bizarre world of his imagination.
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From the Publisher
Previous Praise for Tanizaki's Writing
"Even his lighter-hearted fictions ... make us hold our breath, and the endings don't let us quite exhale."--John Updike, New Yorker
"The outstanding Japanese novelist of this century."--Edmund White, New York Times Book Review
"World-class."--Christian Science Monitor
"The remarkable sensibility of a great artist."--Anthony Burgess, Punch
"One of the greatest of twentieth-century novelists, of the rank of Thomas Mann."--Angela Carter, New Statesman
"The writing is inventive, allusive, moving with assurance and skill."--Times Literary Supplement
"A relaxed rhythm and heft, a directness and simplicity suddenly condensing into poetry and symbol, an imaginative reach that even while encompassing twists of erotic oddity ... still seems robust."--John Updike, New Yorker
About the Author
Anthony H. Chambers is Professor Emeritus of Japanese at Arizona State University.
Paul McCarthy is Professor Emeritus, Surugadai University, Saitama, Japan.
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- PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0472073354
- ISBN 13 9780472073351
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages186
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