The Mother of Major General Zigan
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"Major General Nogi's Mother" is a classic collection of novels by Junichiro Tanizaki, a representative writer of Japanese aestheticism. It includes "Major General Nogi's Mother", "Fumiko's Feet", "Blue Flower", "On the Road", "A Lock of Hair" and other representative short stories and short stories. Among them, the famous story of the same name "The Mother of Major General Nogikan" was written in 1949. It is based on classic ancient books such as "The Tale of Genji", "The Tale of the Past" and "The Tale of Yamato". It weaves a magnificent legend of the Heian period with a strong classical flavor. It was highly praised by Japanese literary critics as "the synthesis and the highest crystallization of all Tanizaki's elements". Talking about this article, Tanizaki said, "I hope not to offend the dignity of historical facts as much as possible, and at the same time fill in the shortcomings of the record, so as to expand my own world." The world of Tanizaki's novels is full of absurdity and weirdness, seeking beauty in ugliness, affirming goodness in praise, and thinking about the meaning of survival in death. Whether it is the world of beautiful snow that expresses his demonic "ugliness as beauty" or the oriental culture that pursues Japanese classical traditional beauty, Junichiro Tanizaki's works are permeated with a strong sense of human emotions and psychology. Yukio Mishima once evaluated Tanizaki Junichiro's works as "the peonies blooming brilliantly against the gloomy background of naturalistic literature".
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