Quicksand - Brossura

Tanizaki, Junichiro

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679760229 ISBN 13: 9780679760221

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995

Riassunto

A young, well-born Osaka widow, Sonoko Kakiuchi, describes her husband's humiliation and the influence of a beautiful and totally corrupt art student on their lives, in a novel set in the 1920s

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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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Book by Tanizaki Junichiro

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679760229
• ISBN 13: 9780679760221
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240