โ Scribed by Tanizaki, Junichiro
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INTRODUCTION; [CONTENTS]; A Portrait of Shunkin (Shunkinsho, 1933); Terror (Kyofu, 1913); The Bridge of Dreams (Yume no ukihashi, 1959); The Tattooer (Shisei, 1910); The Thief (Watakushi, 1921); Aguri (Aoi hana, 1922); A Blind Man's Tale (Momoku monogatari, 1931); TUTTLE CLASSICS by JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI.;In these seven stories, Tanizaki, the author of The Makioka Sisters explores the territory where love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of refined cruelty. A young man is erotically imprisoned by the memory of his mother. A tattoo artist transforms the body of an exquisite woman into teeming canvas of her inner nature. A beautiful blink musician exacts the ultimate sacrifice from the man who both her lover and her disciple. These and other gripping scenarios of possession are told with such.
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