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No Japanese writer was more obsessed with desire than Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965). This book argues that Tanizaki's novels do not merely end in the reification and contemplation of cultural ideals but rather problematize the desire behind such ideals.

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"Ito has produced a valuable study of Japan's greatest modern novelist. No one else has written on this scale, and with this degree of critical acumen, about Tanizaki, and on one else has assessed Tanizaki's real significance on the modern Japanese cultural scene as intelligently as Ito has done. It is a fine book that should be read by Japanologists, comparativists, and readers of serious fiction." -Paul Anderer, Columbia University,

Visions of Desire

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    A Hardback by Ken K. Ito

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      Publisher: MK - Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780804718691, 978-0804718691
      ISBN10: 0804718695

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      No Japanese writer was more obsessed with desire than Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965). This book argues that Tanizaki's novels do not merely end in the reification and contemplation of cultural ideals but rather problematize the desire behind such ideals.

      Trade Review
      "Ito has produced a valuable study of Japan's greatest modern novelist. No one else has written on this scale, and with this degree of critical acumen, about Tanizaki, and on one else has assessed Tanizaki's real significance on the modern Japanese cultural scene as intelligently as Ito has done. It is a fine book that should be read by Japanologists, comparativists, and readers of serious fiction." -Paul Anderer, Columbia University,

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