"Modern Love and Infatuation" contains six sensual novels written by Tanizaki between his youth and middle age, all of which belong to the genre with high artistic achievements in his early creations. These works mainly revolve around "emotion", each exploring the abyss of human nature from a unique perspective, including the indulgence and indulgence of aestheticism, as well as the provocation and horror of sensual novels, forming a series of literary confessions that rebel against the times with desire. He also used this to add highly personal stylized creative practice and aesthetic experiments to the history of modern literature in Japan and the world. At the same time, this batch of works not only continues the fin-de-siècle aesthetics and "demonism" style of his early creations, but also provides a glimpse of the theme types and prototypes of later classic novels: sensual pleasure and sorrow, the ravings and monologues of idiots in the floating world; the discovery of the existence of beauty in the shadows, and the display of the heat of life from the point of madness.
Reader comments
This book is very interesting! Junichiro Tanizaki wrote "love" very delicately, which reminded me of those friends around me who are working hard for their dreams. They may also have had such complicated emotions. I especially like the description of "hatred" in it, it feels very real. Just like when I was a child, there were people I particularly hated. Looking back now, I can still remember the feeling of hatred. However, such emotions also allow us to understand ourselves better. In short, this book is worth reading and will make you think more deeply about human nature.
This book is very interesting! Junichiro Tanizaki wrote "love" very delicately, which reminded me of those friends around me who are working hard for their dreams. They may also have had such complicated emotions. I especially like the description of "hatred" in it, it feels very real. Just like when I was a child, there were people I particularly hated. Looking back now, I can still remember the feeling of hatred. However, such emotions also allow us to understand ourselves better. In short, this book is worth reading and will make you think more deeply about human nature.