Tattoo

★"Heretic" Junichiro Tanizaki's work at the peak of his demonic period ★A sincere struggle in an absurd life, a secret path leading to the road to self. ★"All beautiful things are strong, and all ugly things are weak" Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965), a representative writer of Japanese aesthetic literature. In 1910, he entered the literary world with "Tattoo" and "Kilin". His representative works include "The Love of an Idiot", "Swastika", "Chun Qin Chao", "Praise to the Shadow", "Fine Snow", "The Mother of Major General Zigan", "The Key", "Diary of a Crazy Old Man", etc. He has won the Mainichi Publishing Literature Prize, the Asahi Culture Prize and the Mainichi Art Prize. Received the Japanese Cultural Medal in 1949. Junichiro Tanizaki is a master of Japanese aesthetic literature and one of the representative writers of modern Japanese literature. In 1958, Yukio Mishima recommended Junichiro Tanizaki as a candidate for the Nobel Prize with his works such as "Polygon-Eating Insect". This book contains eight of Tanizaki Junichiro's early representative works: "Tattoo", "Kirin", "Boy", "Devil", "Devil (Continued)", "The Sorrow of the Heretic" and "The Tattered Light", which were created from 1910 to 1911. Over the past eight years, these early works earned him the title of "Demonist" and he was highly praised by Karika Nagai: "Junichiro Tanizaki fully possesses special qualities and skills that no one among the modern writers has."