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A Cat, A Man, and Two Women
Tanizaki
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Description for A Cat, A Man, and Two Women
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The three pieces in this collection—the novella “A Cat, A Man, and Two Women” and two shorter pieces “The Little Kingdom” and “Professor Rado”—are lighthearted and entertaining variations on one of Tanizaki’s favorite preoccupations: dominance and submission in relationships, complicated even further here by customs, public opinion, and comic grotesqueries. In the title piece, the bumbling Shozo is caught in the middle of an ongoing struggle between his ex-wife and her younger successor. Shozo would prefer to stay out of it and be peacefully left alone with his elegant tortoiseshell cat Lily, but he keeps getting dragged back into ... Read more
The three pieces in this collection—the novella “A Cat, A Man, and Two Women” and two shorter pieces “The Little Kingdom” and “Professor Rado”—are lighthearted and entertaining variations on one of Tanizaki’s favorite preoccupations: dominance and submission in relationships, complicated even further here by customs, public opinion, and comic grotesqueries. In the title piece, the bumbling Shozo is caught in the middle of an ongoing struggle between his ex-wife and her younger successor. Shozo would prefer to stay out of it and be peacefully left alone with his elegant tortoiseshell cat Lily, but he keeps getting dragged back into ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New Directions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811224499
SKU
V9780811224499
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Ref
99-20
About Tanizaki
Author of The Makioka Sisters, In Praise of Shadows, and A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, Junichiro Tanizaki (1886–1965) is arguably the greatest Japanese writer of the twentieth century. Paul McCarthy, Professor of Comparative Culture at Surugadai University in Japan, has translated work by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, Takeshi Umehara, Zenno Ishigami, and Atsushi Nakajima.
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