谷崎潤一郎 Knihy

In Osaka in the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a way of life that is vanishing. As told by Junichiro Tanizaki, the story of the Makioka sisters forms what is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century, a poignant yet unsparing portrait of a family–and an entire society–sliding into the abyss of modernity. Tsuruko, the eldest sister, clings obstinately to the prestige of her family name even as her husband prepares to move their household to Tokyo, where that name means nothing. Sachiko compromises valiantly to secure the future of her younger sisters. The unmarried Yukiko is a hostage to her family’s exacting standards, while the spirited Taeko rebels by flinging herself into scandalous romantic alliances. Filled with vignettes of upper-class Japanese life and capturing both the decorum and the heartache of its protagonist, The Makioka Sisters is a classic of international literature. From the Hardcover edition.

Na-o-mi. The three syllables of this name, unusual in 1920s Japan, captivate a 28-year-old engineer, who soon becomes infatuated with the girl so named, a teenaged café waitress. Drawn to her Eurasian features and innocent demeanor, Joji is eager to whisk young Naomi away from the seamy underbelly of post—World War I Tokyo and to mold her into his ideal wife. But when the two come together to indulge their shared passion for Western culture, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from being the naïve girl of his fantasies, and his passion descends into a comically helpless masochism. A literary masterpiece that helped to establish Junichiro Tanizaki as Japan's greatest novelist, Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and torment, and a brilliant evocation of a nation's cultural confusion.

「お才やーい」。寝ても覚めてもその姿に憧れ、騙されても欺かれても執拗にお才を追い求める上州屋の“若旦那”巳之介。『お艶殺し』とならぶ毒婦もの「お才と巳之介」ほか、谷崎作品に底流する情痴の世界を描く五篇「憎念」「懺悔話」「富美子の足」「青い花」「一と房の髪」を収める。

「前科者」「柳湯の事件」「呪はれた戯曲」「途上」「私」「或る調書の一節」「或る罪の動機」の七篇を収める。人はいつ「いかなる禍の犠牲になるかも知れない」―人間の心理の複雑な内側をえぐり、犯罪の「空想と実行の間」を執拗に追及、何げない日常の中の恐しい謎を緻密な論理と推理で暴いてゆく犯罪小説集。

観音様へお参りするとパノラマや凌雲閣や花屋敷を見て、と谷崎が幼いときから親しんだ浅草、東京の大衆娯楽地として活況を呈した浅草。浅草公園に集う画家や歌唄いたちが、民衆芸術の可能性を追究して芸術論をたたかわせる。「襤褸の光」「鮫人」、随筆「浅草公園」の三篇を収める。

「己はいまだに自分を凡人だと思う事は出来ぬ」と自分の天才を疑い得ない「神童」の独白、「甘美にして芳烈なる芸術」を発表するまでの陰欝な青春を描く「異端者の悲しみ」ほか、「The Affair of Two Watches」「詩人のわかれ」。天才の名を恣にした谷崎自身の影を色濃くうつした名作四篇を収める。

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