by Junichirō Tanizaki · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788490622896
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Two fundamental novels from Junichiro Tanizaki's erotic imagination, where the diary is used as a place for reflection on love and sex. The Key is the story of a declining marriage. After almost thirty years, a university professor in his fifties notices that the relationship with his young wife Ikuko is running out. He decides to start a diary where he collects his fantasies with the intention of her reading it, and thus rekindle the passion. Soon after, she starts her own diary. In Diary of a Mad Old Man Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man who knows he is in the last months of his life, talks about his passionate obsession with Satsuko, his son's attractive wife. This passion will undoubtedly have fatal consequences.
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.
