The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki

The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki

This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's desires...until the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. Ikuko realises she has found the key to his very soul.

A story about sex and marriage that is as explicit as any novel on the theme since Lady Chatterley's Lover * Time *
At once sensational and serious.. a middle-aged man's last bout of sexual passion * New York Times *
That this is a work of rare art can never be in doubt * New Statesman *
A story about sex and marriage that is as explicit as any novel on the theme since Lady Chatterley's Lover * The Times *
Tanizaki tells the delicate and, in the end, frightening story with great skill...this is not a book you will soon forget * Boston Herald *

Junichiro Tanizaki was one of Japan's greatest twentienth century novelists. Born in 1886 in Tokyo, his first published work - a one-act play - appeared in 1910 in a literary magazine he helped to found. Tanizaki lived in the cosmopolitan Tokyo area until the earthquake of 1923, when he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region and became absorbed in Japan's past.

All his most important works were written after 1923, among them Some Prefer Nettles (1929), The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi (1935), several modern versions of The Tale of Genji (1941, 1954 and 1965), The Makioka Sisters, The Key (1956) and Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961). He was awarded an Imperial Award for Cultural Merit in 1949 and in 1965 he was elected an honorary member of the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the first Japanese writer to receive this honour. Tanizaki died later that same year.

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ISBN 13	9780099289999
ISBN 10	0099289997
Title	The Key
Author	Junichiro Tanizaki
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2000-09-07
Number of pages	176
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