Jun'ichiro Tanizaki is one of the most eminent Japanese writers of
the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family
dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his
postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki
made his literary debut in 1910. This book presents three powerful
stories of family life from the first decade of Tanizaki's career
that foreshadow the themes the great writer would go on to explore.
"Longing" recounts the fantastic journey of a precocious young boy
through an eerie nighttime landscape. Replete with striking natural
images and uncanny human encounters, it ends with a striking
revelation. "Sorrows of a Heretic" follows a university student and
aspiring novelist who lives in degrading poverty in a Tokyo
tenement. Ambitious and tormented, the young man rebels against his
family against a backdrop of sickness and death. "The Story of an
Unhappy Mother" describes a vivacious but self-centered woman's
drastic transformation after a freak accident involving her son and
daughter-in-law. Written in different genres, the three stories are
united by a focus on mothers and sons and a concern for Japan's
traditional culture in the face of Westernization. The longtime
Tanizaki translators Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy
masterfully bring these important works to an Anglophone audience.
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