by Junichiro Tanizaki, Margarida Gil Moreira · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789727085217
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«Elogio da sombra» is Junichiro Tanizaki's essay, published by Relógio D'Água in Portuguese (71 pages), translated by Margarida Gil Moreira.
In this essay, Tanizaki contrasts Western aesthetics, which associate beauty with light, with the Japanese tradition, for which the essential lies in shadow and its nuances. Through architecture, temples, shōji, nō theater or the faces of women, he defends an ambiguous universe where penumbra and clarity merge.
Essay originally published in 1933. The record catalogs this Portuguese edition with 71 pages and places it under Art and Culture and Philosophy.
Recommended for readers interested in Japanese aesthetics, Eastern culture and the philosophical essay on the perception of beauty.
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature. The tone and subject matter of his work range from shocking depictions of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions to subtle portrayals of the dynamics of family life within the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society. Frequently, his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which the West and Japanese tradition are juxtaposed.
