Seven Japanese Tales by Junichiro Tanizaki, (Author), Howard Hibbett,(Translator)
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Overview: Junichiro Tanizaki’s Seven Japanese Tales collects stories that explore the boundary at which love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of voluptuous cruelty.
A beautiful blind musician exacts the ultimate sacrifice from the man who is both her disciple and her lover. A tattooist turns the body of an exquisite young girl into a reflection of her predatory inner nature. A young man is erotically imprisoned by memories of his absent mother. Shocking in its content and lyrical in its beauty, these stories represent some of the finest work of one of Japan’s greatest modern writers.
Junichiro Tanizaki’s Seven Japanese Tales are a collection of works from 1910 to 1953. They range in length from a few pages to near novella length. A common theme is the friction and conflicts between older Japanese traditions and the influence of modern sensibilities. His writing ranges from the matter of fact to the evocative. Tanizaki has a taste for the erotic. Where it appears in this collection is in a horrific story the Tattooer. In only ten pages we are exposed to the Japanese version of the demi monde. Its climax is a horrific attack on a younger female of that society who ends the story by accepting and returning this attack. These stories are worth the read. They stand alone as examples of the short story whatever there relation to transitions in Japanese literature from the pre-World War II era into the middle of the 20th century.
Genre: General Fiction/Classics/Short Stories
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