The Maids (Paperback)

The Maids, Tanizaki's final novel, sparkles like a jewel. Over the years-before, during, and after WWII-many women work in the pampered, elegant household of the famous author Chikura Raikichi, his wife, and her younger sister. Though the family's quite well-to-do, the house is small; the proximity of the maids helps perhaps to explain Raikichi's extremely close, and somewhat eroticized, observation of all their little ways. In the sensualist patrician Raikichi, Tanizaki offers a richly ironic self-portrait, but he presents as well an exquisitely nuanced chronicle of change and loss: centuries' old values and manners are vanishing, and here-in the evanescent beauty of all the small gestures and intricacies of private life-we find a whole world passing away.

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2019
Authors:	Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Translators:	Michael P Cronin
Dimensions:	206 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-2874-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Sagas
LSN:	0-8112-2874-6
Barcode:	9780811228749

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