About this title: In these seven stories, Tanizaki explores territory that will be familiar to readers of his other fiction: the point where love threatens to become self-annihilation, where the pure contemplation of beauty transforms itself into fetishism, and where devotion to tradition becomes the weapon of the most exquisite cruelty.
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Description: Good. B000KCVRZK 1963 paperback with slight edgewear, creasing, tanning, some sort of stamp inside front cover. Scans available on request. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1996-10-01
ISBN-13:9780679761075ISBN:0679761071
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679761075ISBN:0679761071
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Edition: 1st American
Binding: Gren/gold/red
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, NY
Date Published: 1963
Description: Hardcover. DJ price clip, else near fine in VG. dust cover. In mylar, Gren/yel/blk. Octavo, 298 p, Seven stories by Japanese novelist. read more
Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good in Good jacket. First US edition. Gift inscription to the front free endpaper else VG+ copy in price clipped, well worn and lightly chipped Dust Wrapper. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf [, New York
Date Published: c.1963]
Description: Second printing 1970. Translated from Japanese by Howard Hibbett. Hardcover, very good condition in very good dust jacket (price-clipped; short tears). read more
Edition: First U.S. Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, NY
Date Published: 1963
Description: Near Fine in Very Good + jacket. First U.S. Edition stated. NF/VG+. Hardcover, quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards with gilt titles, DJ, 298 pp, black topstain, slight agetoning and edgewear to DJ, else a clean and crisp copy. Protected in a Brodart cover. read more
""(they say that Sasuke disliked seeing her laugh. I suppose he found it painful, since there is something poignant about a blind person's laughter.)"-17
the first line of Tanizaki's story "Terror" totally blew my mind: "It was early last June while I was in Kyoto that the illness menaced me."
"Since I often looked up at her as she held me in her arms, I could see her nostrils clearly."-108
"I am not writing out of any desire to have others read this. At least, I don't intend to let anyone see it as long as I am alive. If someone happens across it after my death, there will be not harm in that; but even if it is lost on oblivion, if no one ever reads it, I shall have no regret. I write for the sake of writing, simply because I enjoy looking back at the events of the past and trying to remember them one by one."-140
"And the merchandise displayed behind the glass on both sides was bright and colorful, with the fascinating, mysterious luster of a garden at the bottom of the sea."-199"
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