The Maids
The Maids, Tanizaki's final novel, sparkles like a jewel. Over the years-before, during, and after WWII-many women work in the pampered, elegant household of the famous author Chikura Raikichi, his wife, and her younger sister. Though the family's quite well-to-do, the house is small; the proximity of the maids helps perhaps to explain Raikichi's extremely close, and somewhat eroticized, observation of all their little ways. In the sensualist patrician Raikichi, Tanizaki offers a richly ironic self-portrait, but he presents as well an exquisitely nuanced chronicle of change and loss: centuries' old values and manners are vanishing, and here-i…
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Weitere Autoren: Cronin, Michael P. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2874-9
- EAN: 9780811228749
- Produktnummer: 29171620
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Masse: H20.2 cm x B13.8 cm x D1.7 cm 213 g
- Gewicht: 213
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Author of The Makioka Sisters, In Praise of Shadows, and A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) is arguably the greatest Japanese writer of the twentieth century.
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