Diary of a Mad Old Man - Brossura

Tanizaki, Junichiro

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ISBN 10: 0679730249 ISBN 13: 9780679730248

Casa editrice: Vintage Books, 1991

Riassunto

Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. He discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly attentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, flashy dancer with a shady past. Pitiful and ridiculous as he is, Utsugi is without a trace of self-pity, and his diary shines with self-effacing good humor. At once hilarious and of a sadness, Diary of a Mad Old Man is a brilliant depiction of the relationship between eros and the will to live -- a novel of the tragicomedy of human existence.

Translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett

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Recensione:

"The diarist [is] an absolutely convincing creation ... funny and ultimately appealing." -- The Atlantic

"[A] lean, taut book ... excellently put into English."

-- Saturday Review

L'autore:

Junichiro Tanizaki was born in Tokyo in 1886 and lived there until the earthquake of 1923, when he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region, the scene of his novel The Makioka Sisters (1943-48). Among his works are Naomi (1924), Some Prefer Nettles (1928), Quicksand (1930), Arrowroot (1931), A Portrait of Shunkin (1933), The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi (1935), modern versions of The Tale of Genji (1941, 1954, and 1965), Captain Shigemoto's Mother (1949), The Key (1956), and Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961). By 1930 he had gained such renown that an edition of his complete works was published, and he was awarded Japan's Imperial Prize in Literature in 1949. Tanizaki died in 1965.

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• Editore: Vintage Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679730249
• ISBN 13: 9780679730248
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 177