Major General Ziqian's Mother: Diary of a Crazy Old Man
by H
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"Major General Ziqian's Mother" tells the story of a beautiful woman who married Guo Jing, who was fifty years older than her, because of her family's financial difficulties, and gave birth to her son Ziqian. Her natural beauty attracted Pingzhong's admiration, and even aroused the possessive desire of Kunikune's nephew Shiping. At a banquet, Shiping designed to seduce the drunken Kunjing and give his wife to him. From then on, the young Ziqian lost his gentle and beautiful mother... "Diary of a Crazy Old Man" depicts the complex and subtle inner world of an old man in his final years. Due to old age and frailty, the old man developed an unethical desire for his young and energetic daughter-in-law. The old man allowed himself to indulge in his twisted lust for his daughter-in-law, using her as his pillar and belief at the end of his life, almost going crazy. "Major General Nogikan's Mother" weaves an anecdote from the Heian period using historical research methods. It has a strong classical flavor and is considered to be the synthesis and highest crystallization of all elements of Tanizaki literature. "Diary of a Mad Old Man" is Tanizaki's masterpiece in his later years. It shows the erotic world of the elderly in the form of a diary. It is a representative work of the demonic aesthetic style in the early days of Tanizaki's return.
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