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Thin*
"Snow" is Tanizaki Junichiro's masterpiece and one of the outstanding masterpieces in the entire Showa literary world. The novel is a genre novel describing the love story between young men and women of the Japanese middle class. It mainly describes the life stories of the four sisters Tsuruko, Sachiko, Yukiko and Taeko of the wealthy Osaka businessman Makiko family after their separation on the eve of the Pacific War. It has created four women with different styles in daily life: the eldest dau
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Kirin
The short story "Kirin" was favored by Karika Nagai, the originator of Japanese aestheticism, for its novel conception and fluent writing style. Nagai published a monograph praising him for opening up a field that no one had ever touched in the Japanese literary world, and spoke highly of it. Tanizaki officially entered the Japanese literary world.
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Praise to the Shadows
"In Praise of Shadow" is a collection of essays by Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki. It contains six essays: "In Praise of Shadows", "The Theory of Laziness", "Love and Pornography", "Hate of Visitors", "Travel Miscellaneous Stories", and "Toilet Miscellaneous". It is Tanizaki Junichiro's masterpiece. Among them, the most well-known book "In Praise of Shadow" is derived from the view that "shadow creates the beauty of Oriental architecture" and explores the subtleties of Oriental architecture
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Elegant Villain
This book includes: "Blind Story" and "Tattoo". "Blind Story" is one of Tanizaki Junichiro's representative works in the period of returning to classical tradition. It uses the 66-year-old blind masseuse Yaichi to recall the history of his thirteen years of serving Oda Nobunaga's sister, Mrs. Aichi, and proposes that "erotica is the driving force that shakes history." Yaichi believes that even a hero like Toyotomi Hideyoshi has no different inner thoughts from an ordinary person like him. They b
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Blind Story
"The Blind Story" is one of the masterpieces of the Japanese literary master Junichiro Tanizaki's return to classical tradition. During Japan's Warring States Period, daimyo wars raged. The most beautiful woman in the Warring States Period, Oda Nobunaga's sister, Mrs. Aichi, was initially betrothed to Asai Nagamasa by Nobunaga. Soon Nobunaga and Nagamasa went to war, and Nagamasa was forced to commit suicide. The wife and her three daughters were displaced during the war, and later remarried Shi
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Wuzhou Public Secrets
This novel is another attempt by the aestheticist writer Junichiro Tanizaki to challenge the ancient literary form of "story". Taking the Warring States Period as the background, the fictional protagonist is placed in a mixture of fictional and factual research and historical materials, which demonstrates the unique charm of fictional writing. As the son of the Musashi Shou Kiryu family, Wuzhou Gonghuisheng has been a hostage in Olu Mountain Castle since he was a child. When he was thirteen year
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Secret
This book is selected from three mystery novel collections by Junichiro Tanizaki, totaling seven. "The Sadistic Incident in Japan" is about a masochistic murder incident. However, the so-called murder incident was not determined by the police, but the narrator's personal speculation based on news reports and related records. The protagonist "I" of "The Cursed Script" speculates about the death of the dramatist Sasaki's ex-wife Tamako in an accident. Based on the testimony of Sasaki's current wif
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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", "Th
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Collection of Works of Junichiro Tanizaki: Record of Modern Love and Infatuation
"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 wi
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Tattoo
After reading "Tattoo", I realized: I am not an alien, I am just different from you. A representative work of Japanese aestheticism literature and the budding work of demonic aesthetics! A Japanese aesthetic classic that profoundly influenced Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Yukio Mishima, and Yasunari Kawabata. Junichiro Tanizaki, a representative writer of modern Japanese literature, was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature 7 times in his life! The starting point of Tanizaki literature! Both Taniz
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Crazy Love
Twenty-eight-year-old Kawai Joeji adopted the fifteen-year-old girl Naomi with the intention of training her into a "great" and "amazing" woman. However, Naomi is vain, arrogant and romantic, and hides scheming under her innocent appearance. Kawai is bewitched by her charming appearance and meets her needs at all costs. In the end, he swears to become her slave and let her control her... Because of love, you will endure a lot of humiliation that you could not imagine before.
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Key
"The Key" is a masterpiece by Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki. The text is based on the diaries of a middle-aged couple. It is equivalent to a record of a couple's life from a dual perspective. The privacy, speculation, inducement, and secret fighting between the couple, through the four-corner relationship joined by the daughter and the prospective son-in-law, eventually lead to the conspiracy-like ending of the husband's death due to stimulation. This diary-style novel is a plot designed fo
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Crazy Love
The unique work of aesthetic master Junichiro Tanizaki
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Fine Snow
The stage of "Snow" is set in Osaka at the turn of the 1930s and 1940s. In the past, the famous Makoka family had four beautiful sisters: the eldest sister Tsuruko was conservative, the second sister Sachiko was harmonious, the third sister Yukiko was introverted, and the younger sister Taeko was unrestrained. The story takes the older, unmarried Yukiko's blind date experiences as the main line, and the ups and downs of Taeko's frustration in studying and her emotional entanglements with rich bo
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