ISBN 9780375719318 | 0375719318 Textbooks - "The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot Two Novels" by Junichiro Tanizaki Anthony H Chambers Junichiro Tanizaki Anthony H Chambers

Authors: Junichiro Tanizaki - Anthony H. Chambers - Junichiro Tanizaki; Anthony H. Chambers
ISBN 10: 0375719318
ISBN 13: 9780375719318
Release: March 11, 2003
Format: Paperback (224 pages)
List Price: $12.00
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From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi, Junichir Tanizaki reimagines the exploits of a legendary samurai as a sadomasochistic dance between the hero and the wife of his enemy. Arrowroot, though set in the twentieth century, views an adult orphan’s search for his mother’s past through the translucent shoji screen of ancient literature and myth. Both works are replete with shocking juxtapositions. Severed heads become objects of erotic fixation. Foxes take on human shape. An aristocratic lady loves and pities the man she is conspiring to destroy. This supple translation reveals the full scope of Tanizaki’s gift: his confident storytelling, luminous detail, and astonishingly vital female characters.

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The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot: Two Novels