by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070731466
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«Le chat, son maître et ses deux maîtresses» is the short-story collection by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, published by Gallimard in paperback (192 pages, in French).
The title story, set in Kōbe, shows the cat Lily as a hostage of a love triangle narrated with humor, irony and tenderness. It is completed by three earlier stories: «Le petit royaume» (1918), «Le professeur Radō» (1925) and «Le professeur Radō revisité» (1928), in which innocence is lost and passions dominate.
Collection «Du monde entier». Translated from the Japanese by Cécile Sakai and Jean-Jacques Tschudin. 1994 edition; the main story is from 1936 and the others from 1918, 1925 and 1928.
Readers of classical Japanese literature and of stories with humor and irony, also interested in tales featuring cats.
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.
