Bøger af Junichiro Tanizaki

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.

In Praise of Shadows is a captivating novel by the renowned author, Junichiro Tanizaki. Published in 2023, this book delves into a unique genre that will leave readers enthralled. Tanizaki's masterful storytelling and richly detailed narratives bring the shadows to life, painting a vivid picture that stays with you long after you've turned the last page. Published by Leete's Island Books, U.S., this book is a testament to Tanizaki's unparalleled ability to create immersive worlds that resonate with readers. In Praise of Shadows is more than just a book; it's an exploration into the depths of the human psyche. Don't miss out on this masterpiece by Junichiro Tanizaki.

Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With surgical precision, Tanizaki lays bare the sinews of pride, and brings a vanished era to vibrant life.

While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his growing desire for his beautiful daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, Westernised dancer with a shady past.

Til skyggernes pris er Junichiro Tanizakis (1886-1965) udødelige mesterværk fra 1933. Det er en poetisk lovsang til japansk æstetik, hvor Tanizaki i en frit fabulerende, essayistisk stil der bevæger sig fra rum og arkitektur til No teater, fra kogekunst til lyssætning, argumenterer for – og guider sin læser i retning af – at se skønheden i oxideret metal, det majestætiske og ophøjede i uglaseret keramik og det subtile ved organisk materiale der bærer vidnesbyrd om daglig berøring af menneskelige hænder. Og så taler han for at modstå fristelsen til at strømline, til at overbelyse (læs: lade sig forføre af moderniteten), og huske skyggerne (læs: traditionerne, håndværket, det naturgivne) for uden skygger ingen skønhed!Vi har valgt at tilføje et af Tanizakis første skønlitterær værker, novellen Tatoveringen, til bogen. Omend den stilistisk befinder sig et andet sted, så aner man her også forfatterens optagethed, og dybe fascination, af skønhed, af håndværket, af det æstetiske.We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.’ – Junichiro Tanizaki

A major discovery: Tanizaki's wonderful final novel--now in English

Junichiro Tanizaki's Seven Japanese Tales collects stories that explore the boundary at which love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of voluptuous cruelty. A beautiful blind musician exacts the ultimate sacrifice from the man who is both her disciple and her lover. A tattooist turns the body of an exquisite young girl into a reflection of her predatory inner nature. A young man is erotically imprisoned by memories of his absent mother. Shocking in its content and lyrical in its beauty, these stories represent some of the finest work of one of Japan's greatest modern writers.

Junichiro Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles is an exquisitely nuanced exploration of the allure of ancient Japanese tradition-and the profound disquiet that accompanied its passing. It is the 1920s in Tokyo, and Kaname and his wife Misako are trapped in a parody of a progressive Western marriage. No longer attracted to one another, they have long since stopped sleeping together and Kaname has sanctioned his wife's liaisons with another man. But at the heart of their arrangement lies a sadness that impels Kaname to take refuge in the past, in the serene rituals of the classical puppet theater-and in a growing fixation with his father-in-law's mistress. Some Prefer Nettles is an ethereally suggestive, psychologically complex exploration of the crisis every culture faces as it hurtles headfirst into modernity.

Una historia valiente y arriesgada de la mano de uno de los autores más conocidos de las letras japonesas. En ella, el autor narra las guerras civiles que sacudieron Japón en la segunda mitad del siglo XVI desde el punto de vista de las mujeres: madres, esposas e hijas, en un poderoso ejercicio narrativo que les otorga voz a aquellas que quedaron silenciadas por la Historia.Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Tanizaki Junichiro es un autor nacido en Tokio en 1886 y fallecido en 1965. Eterno candidato al premio Nobel, se le considera uno de los autores imprescindibles de la literatura japonesa contemporánea. Durante sus estudios absorbió toda la literatura occidental que cayó en sus manos, punto que influenció poderosamente toda su carrera. Jamás dejó de escribir, hasta el día de su muerte.

Una historia de amor tan perversa como hipnótica, una reflexión sobre el desgaste del tiempo y sobre los esfuerzos humanos por detenerlo. Shunkin, admirada aunque despótica música ciega, mantiene una relación amorosa aunque despótica con Sasuke, su discípulo entregado. La desgracia que los golpea a ambos de forma brutal pondrá a prueba los cimientos de su amor.Tanizaki Junichiro es un autor nacido en Tokio en 1886 y fallecido en 1965. Eterno candidato al premio Nobel, se le considera uno de los autores imprescindibles de la literatura japonesa contemporánea. Durante sus estudios absorbió toda la literatura occidental que cayó en sus manos, punto que influenció poderosamente toda su carrera. Jamás dejó de escribir, hasta el día de su muerte.

Una trabajadísima obra que mezcla el suspense y el erotismo en una historia de amor y extorsión a cuatro bandas. Por un lado, Kakuichi, esposa del joven abogado Kotaro, un ama de casa insatisfecha que se apunta a un curso de pintura tradicional para matar el aburrimiento. Por otro, Mitsuko, una estudiante seductora que pronto iniciará un tórrido romance con Kakuichi. Y en el extremo opuesto, Watanuki, novio de Mitsuko y dispuesto a llegar a límites insospechados para casarse con ella.Tanizaki Junichiro es un autor nacido en Tokio en 1886 y fallecido en 1965. Eterno candidato al premio Nobel, se le considera uno de los autores imprescindibles de la literatura japonesa contemporánea. Durante sus estudios absorbió toda la literatura occidental que cayó en sus manos, punto que influenció poderosamente toda su carrera. Jamás dejó de escribir, hasta el día de su muerte.

Un ensayo breve y al mismo tiempo revelador sobre el pensamiento estético en el arte japonés. En él, Tanizaki Junichiro reflexiona sobre el amor por el detalle, el minimalismo, la disciplina y la sutileza que encarna el arte japonés en oposición a la contundencia de lo occidental. Un texto imprescindible para quien quiera empezar a comprender los preceptos del arte nipón.Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Tanizaki Junichiro es un autor nacido en Tokio en 1886 y fallecido en 1965. Eterno candidato al premio Nobel, se le considera uno de los autores imprescindibles de la literatura japonesa contemporánea. Durante sus estudios absorbió toda la literatura occidental que cayó en sus manos, punto que influenció poderosamente toda su carrera. Jamás dejó de escribir, hasta el día de su muerte.

One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely able to contain his excitement, Sonomura claims that he has cracked a secret cryptographic code based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold-Bug and now knows exactly when and where a murder will take place-and they must hurry if they want to witness the murder, because it's later that very night! Sonomura has a history of lunacy and playing the amateur detective, so Takahashi is of course reluctant to believe him. Nevertheless, they stake out the secret location, and through tiny peepholes in the knotted wood, become voyeurs at the scene of a shocking crime...        Atmospheric, erotic, and tense, Devils in Daylight is an early work by the master storyteller who "created a lifelong series of ingenious variations on a dominant theme: the power of love to energize and destroy" (Chicago Tribune).

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 themselves or 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.

With a precision and brilliance unmatched perhaps by any other novelist of the twentieth century, Junichiro Tanizaki interweaves a sense of his country''s deep past with the kind of pathologies and obsessions we are likely to think of as modern. Here, in two eerie and beautiful novellas, he displays this skill at its most elegant and affecting.   The Reed Cutter has a contemporary setting, though it might have taken place any time in the past thousand years. On a fine September evening, the narrator decides to make a solitary excursion to the site of an ancient imperial palace south of Kyoto, a place now lost and overgrown near the banks of a river. Musing upon old poems, passages of history, and topographical antiquities, he eventually finds himself among the reeds of a sandbar sipping sake from the bottle he has brought with him, watching the moon rise over the river, and scribbling bits of verse in his notebook. Suddenly he is surprised to discover that he is not alone. A strange man joins him and begins to tell a most extraordinary tale about his father, about a scene glimpsed in a moonlit garden forty years before, and about a mysterious woman who has become a lasting obsession.   Captain Shgemoto''s Mother is more violent but no less strange. It takes place in tenth-century Kyoto, in a world in which poetry and brutality, power and sexual impulse, shape the lives of the courtiers. Beginning in an almost whimsical vein with an account of the amorous exploits of a Heian Don Juan called Heiju, it gradually shifts mood to focus on three people—Shihei, the powerful Minister of the Left; his doddering uncle Kunitsune; and Kunitsune''s ravishing and much-younger wife, a woman known only as Shigemoto''s mother. How Shihei succeeds in taking Kunitsunes'' wife away from him in the course of a bizarre and drunken party is a story as shocking—and memorable—as anything Tanizaki ever wrote.

Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation's cultural confusion. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki's masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.

A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy and deceit, and a Japanese classic Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady in an uninspiring marriage. They begin a passionate affair and Sonoko soon finds herself infatuated by Mitsuko, and ensnared in a web of sex, humiliation and deceit.

This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's desires...until the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. Ikuko realises she has found the key to his very soul.

The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce.