Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Author, Anthony H. Chambers, Translator Knopf Publishing Group $22 (180p) ISBN 978-0-679-42010-1
These charming but brittle novellas highlight Tanizaki's fascination with courtly Japanese history. ``The Reed Cutter,'' originally published in 1932, is narrated by a contemporary traveller who finds a peaceful sandbar on which to meditate about...
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Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Author, Anthony H. Chambers, Translator North Point Press $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-86547-470-3
A lord is perversely fascinated with severed heads in ``The Secret History . . . '' while a legend-haunted village near Kyoto is explored in the nostalgic ``Arrowroot.'' According to PW, ``These novellas, albeit very different in stamp, richly...
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Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Author, Anthony H. Chambers, Translator North Point Press $13 (237p) ISBN 978-0-86547-457-4
The Westernization of a Japanese bar girl spells trouble for her husband. ``Charm, lucidity, fascination with perverse passion and relentless emotional honesty . . . are all here in subtle force,'' said PW. (Nov.)
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Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Author, Howard Hibbett, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-394-58547-5
Originally published in 1947, this fine, startling novel by the renowned Japanese writer (1886-1965) appears for the first time in English. Sonoko Kakiuchi, the bored and willful upper-class wife of an Osaka lawyer, recounts the story of her...
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Jun Ichireo Tanizaki, Author, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Author , trans. from the Japanese by Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy. Kodansha $24 (240p) ISBN 978-4-7700-2690-3
Obsessed by themes of eroticism, the grotesque and the fantastically horrible, Tanizaki (1886–1965) was revered in his native Japan for such works as The Makioka Sisters
and Diary of a Mad Old Man. His able translators have collaborated to...
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