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portada Some Prefer Nettles
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
1995
Language
English
Pages
202
Format
Paperback
Weight
1
ISBN
0679752692
ISBN13
9780679752691
Edition No.
1

Some Prefer Nettles

Junichiro Tanizaki (Author) · Vintage · Paperback

Some Prefer Nettles - Junichiro Tanizaki

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Synopsis "Some Prefer Nettles "

Junichiro Tanizaki’s Some Prefer Nettles is an exquisitely nuanced exploration of the allure of ancient Japanese tradition—and the profound disquiet that accompanied its passing.   It is the 1920s in Tokyo, and Kaname and his wife Misako are trapped in a parody of a progressive Western marriage. No longer attracted to one another, they have long since stopped sleeping together and Kaname has sanctioned his wife’s liaisons with another man. But at the heart of their arrangement lies a sadness that impels Kaname to take refuge in the past, in the serene rituals of the classical puppet theater—and in a growing fixation with his father-in-law’s mistress. Some Prefer Nettles is an ethereally suggestive, psychologically complex exploration of the crisis every culture faces as it hurtles headfirst into modernity.
Junichiro Tanizaki
  (Author)
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Tanizaki Junichiro (Tokio, 1886-1965), piedra angular de la literatura contemporánea japonesa y eterno candidato al premio Nobel, cursó estudios literarios en la Universidad Imperial. Autor fundamental para el entendimiento mutuo entre Oriente y Occidente, conoció en profundidad la literatura occidental y se dejó empapar por su influencia: Poe, Baudelaire y sobre todo Oscar Wilde. En su etapa inicial destacan obras imprecindibles como El amor de un idiota y Arenas movedizas. Al final de la década de 1920, Tanizaki se trasladó a Kansai, donde descubrió la cultura clásica nipona y la belleza del Japón premoderno. Publicó por entonces La historia de un ciego, Sobre Shunkin y La vida enmascarada del señor de Musashi, obras que beben de la tradición japonesa clásica. Durante la guerra, sufrió la censura en trabajos como Las hermanas Makioka, que se convertirá en uno de los grandes éxitos de posguerra. En 1949 recibió la Orden del Mérito Cultural en reconocimiento a su labor literaria. Prolífico escritor, Tanizaki continuó trabajando de manera incansable hasta su muerte.
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