The Key (Junichiro Tanizaki Classic Collection)(Chinese Edition)

[ RI ] GU QI RUN YI LANG . ZHU JIA RONG YI

ISBN 10: 7521226011 / ISBN 13: 9787521226010

Published by Writers Publishing House, 2023

About this Item

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2023-12 Publisher: Writers Publishing House The Key is a representative work of Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki. The writing is based on the diaries of a middle-aged couple. which is equivalent to a record of the couple's life from a dual perspective. The privacy. speculation. inducement. and secret struggle between the couple. through the four-corner relationship joined by the daughter and the prospective son-in-law. finally led to the conspiracy-like.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Key (Junichiro Tanizaki Classic Collection)(Chinese Edition)
• Publisher: Writers Publishing House
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 7521226011
• ISBN 13: 9787521226010
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

'This year I intend to begin writing freely about a topic which, in the past, I have hesitated to mention even here. I have always avoided commenting on my sexual relations with Ikuko, for fear that she might surreptitiously read my diary and be offended...' So begins The Key - a forthright and moving tale of a middle-aged man deeply in love with his younger wife. In spite of that love, they have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's thoughts and desires-until the day Ikuko discovers the key to her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. The key, she realises, to his very soul...