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"The Cat, Shozo and Two Women" is a classic collection of novels by Junichiro Tanizaki, a representative writer of Japanese aestheticism, and includes representative short and medium-length novels such as "The Cat, Shozo and Two Women", "Boy", "Horror", "Ex-Con" and "Yanagi Bathhouse Incident". The novella "The Cat, Shozo and Two Women" was written during the period when Tanizaki was translating "The Tale of Genji" (1935-1938). It uses the similarity between women and cats as a metaphor to tell the subtle, complex and interesting relationship between men and women through a cat, allowing men who are overwhelmed by the situation to perform a family comedy with them that makes people laugh. 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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