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In Praise of Shadows
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This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure. The result is a classic description of the collision between the shadows of traditional Japanese interiors and the dazzling light of the modern age.
'Elegant...a delight to read' Independent on Sunday
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Vintage Classics
Product details
- Paperback | 80 pages
- 129 x 198 x 5mm | 64g
- 01 Sep 2006
- Vintage Publishing
- Vintage Classics
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- Revised ed.
- 0
- 0099283573
- 9780099283577
- 7,884
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About Junichiro Tanizaki
All his most important works were written after 1923, among them Some Prefer Nettles (1929), The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi (1935), several modern versions of The Tale of Genji (1941, 1954 and 1965), The Makioka Sisters, The Key (1956) and Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961). He was awarded an Imperial Award for Cultural Merit in 1949 and in 1965 he was elected an honorary member of the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the first Japanese writer to receive this honour. Tanizaki died later that same year.
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