The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man

By:

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Vintage international

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These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all. In The Key, a middle-aged professor plies his wife of thirty years with any number of stimulants, from brandy to a handsome young lover, in order to reach new heights of pleasure. Their alternating diaries record their separate adventures, but whether for themselvesor each other becomes the question. Diary of a Mad Old Man records, with alternating humor and sadness, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi's discovery that even his stroke-ravaged body still contains a raging libido, especially in the unwitting presence of his chic, mysterious daughter-in-law.

Author Biography:

Junichiro Tanizaki was born in Tokya in 1886 and lived there until the earthquake of 1923, when he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region, the scene of The Makioka Sisters. By 1930 he had gained such reknown that an edition of his complete works was published. Author of more than twelve novels, he was awarded Japan's Imperial Prize in lLiterature in 1949. Tanizaki died in 1965.

Release date NZ

September 14th, 2004

Author

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Translated by Howard Hibbett

Pages

368

Series

Vintage international

Dimensions

132x203x20

ISBN-13

9781400079001

Product ID

3554930

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