Junichiro Tanizaki
One of Japan's greatest novelists whose work obsessively explored feminine beauty, fetishism, and the erotic tensions between tradition and modernity. In Praise of Shadows is his celebrated aesthetic essay.
Works
- The Makioka SistersEpic novel chronicling a merchant family's social decline during interwar Japan
- Some Prefer NettlesNovel examining marriage, tradition, and modernity through a man's marital crisis
- The KeyErotic psychological novel depicting obsessive desire within a failing marriage
- In Praise of ShadowsEssay celebrating Japanese aesthetics of shadow, transience, and subtle beauty
- NaomiPsychological novel of obsession as a man becomes corrupted by desire