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Title: Some Prefer Nettles: A Novel (First Vintage International) by Junichiro Tanizaki, Edward G. Seidensticker ISBN: 0-679-75269-2 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: October, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A melancholic separation
Comment: This is a novel about the old and the young generation in the 1920s in Japan.
A couple of the new one wants to separate because their sexual passion has disappeared. The father of the woman tries to convince the couple to continue to stay together.
"The reason for their decision to separate was that they did not want to grow old, that they wanted to be free to live their youth again." (p.31)
The novel is autobiographic and symbolic, which is well explained by the well-known and outstanding translator E. Seidensticker.
But the story should more appeal to the Japanese than to foreign readers, because it refers regularly to authentic Japanese themes as the old and new Japanese puppet theatre or the motif of the woman as a doll.
It is shrouded in a sad and melancholic atmosphere.
Only for the Tanizaki aficionados.
Rating: 5
Summary: A lovely book.
Comment: Tanizaki's powers of description are as potent here as in passages of "Sasame Yuki." As usual he brings time and place to vivid and delicately observed life.
His characters are also convincing - seemingly without effort. The messiness inside them is in no way culturally specific to Japan of a certain era - whether or not it is meant to comment upon the riot of societal changes that usually provide the petri dish in which Tanizaki's protagonists are swimming.
This book is worth reading slowly.
It is also worth someday reading again.
Rating: 5
Summary: Subtle Heartbreak and Frustration
Comment: This is one of my all-time favorite novels, and I have read it about once a year for the last ten. It is a beautiful illustration of cultural struggle, as well as the personal frustrations of a marriage falling apart. It ends in classic Japanese style-- uncertainly-- allowing the reader to wonder and imagine what happens next.
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Title: Quicksand (Vintage International) by Junichiro Tanizaki, Howard Hibbitt ISBN: 0679760229 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother: Two Novellas by Junichiro Tanizaki, Anthony H. Chambers ISBN: 0679757910 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki ISBN: 0679730249 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Naomi (Vintage International) by Junichiro Tanizaki, Anthony H. Chambers ISBN: 0375724745 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker ISBN: 0679761047 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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