Golden Death (series by Junichiro Tanizaki)
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Translated and published for the first time in the Chinese world, it is the ultimate embodiment of artistic supremacy, a lifelong pursuit of the beauty of the human body, and a gorgeous death that achieves true art! "Golden Death" is an early collection of representative short stories by Junichiro Tanizaki. Composed of two novels, "Killing A-yan" and "The Golden Death", "Killing A-yan" tells the story of a man and woman who eloped, Xinzhu and A-yan, living absurdly and discovering that violence can bring pleasure. Later, when A-yan fell in love with another girl, Xinzhu killed her. "Golden Death" tells the story of "my" boyhood friend Okamura, who pursues the beauty of the human body, creates art with living people in Hakone many years later, covers his body with gold foil, and dies suddenly at the moment when he reaches the peak of joy. These two works by Tanizaki Junichiro are shocking and depict the beauty of the senses. This is how he got the name of "Devil" in his early days. They attracted the attention of the literary world at that time. Mishima Yukio once said that he was greatly shocked after reading them.
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