wyszukanych pozycji: 36
Childhood Years: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780472053674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) takes a meandering look back on his early life in Tokyo. He reflects on his upbringing, family, and the capital city with a conversational--and not necessarily honest--eye, offering insights into his later life and his writing.
In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) takes a meander...
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117,77 zł |
Red Roofs and Other Stories: Volume 79
ISBN: 9780472053278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, and Two Women; and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The four stories in this volume date from the first and second decades of Tanizaki's long career and reflect themes that appear throughout his work: exoticism, sexuality, sadomasochism, contrasts between traditional and modern societies, disparities between appearance and reality, the power of dreams, amorality, an interest in cinema, and a fascination with the techniques of storytelling. The stories--translated...
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, and Two Women; and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great ...
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90,94 zł |
In Praise of Shadows
ISBN: 9780099283577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An essay on aesthetics. It explores architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.
An essay on aesthetics. It explores architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfec...
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41,25 zł |
In Black and White
ISBN: 9780231185196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno is working on a story about the perfect murder. His fictional victim is modeled on an acquaintance, a fellow writer. When he notices that this man's real name has crept into his manuscript, he becomes terrified that an actual murder will take place--and that he will be the main suspect. Mizuno goes to great lengths to establish an alibi, venturing into the city's underworld. But he finds himself only more entangled as his paranoid...
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writ...
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96,53 zł |
Naomi
ISBN: 9780375724749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation's cultural confusion.
When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi... Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation's cultural confusion.
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77,11 zł |
Childhood Years: A Memoirvolume 83
ISBN: 9780472073672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) takes a meandering look back on his early life in Tokyo. He reflects on his upbringing, family, and the capital city with a conversational--and not necessarily honest--eye, offering insights into his later life and his writing.
In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) takes a meander...
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343,39 zł |
The Tattooer
ISBN: 9781784351267 / Japoński / Miękka / 2015 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,49 zł |
The Gourmet Club: A Sextetvolume 81
ISBN: 9780472053353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The decadent tales in this collection span 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japan's master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), the author of Naomi, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Makioka Sisters. Made accessible in English by the expertise of translators Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy, the stories in The Gourmet Club vividly explore an array of human passions. In "The Children," three mischievous friends play sadomasochistic games in a mysterious Western-style mansion. The sybaritic narrator of "The Secret" experiments with cross-dressing as he savors the...
The decadent tales in this collection span 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japan's master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), the au...
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90,94 zł |
The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot: Two Novels
ISBN: 9780375719318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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.... From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophist...
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81,40 zł |
The Siren's Lament: Essential Stories
ISBN: 9781782278092 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasy
A new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasy
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61,95 zł |
Seven Japanese Tales
ISBN: 9780679761075 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Junichiro Tanizaki's Seven Japanese Tales collects stories that explore the boundary at which love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of voluptuous cruelty. A beautiful blind musician exacts the ultimate sacrifice from the man who is both her disciple and her lover. A tattooist turns the body of an exquisite young girl into a reflection of her predatory inner nature. A young man is erotically imprisoned by memories of his absent mother. Shocking in its content and lyrical in its beauty,...
Junichiro Tanizaki's Seven Japanese Tales collects stories that explore the boundary at which love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemp...
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72,83 zł |
The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother: Two Novellas
ISBN: 9780679757917 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With a precision and brilliance unmatched perhaps by any other novelist of the twentieth century, Junichiro Tanizaki interweaves a sense of his country's deep past with the kind of pathologies and obsessions we are likely to think of as modern. Here, in two eerie and beautiful novellas, he displays this skill at its most elegant and affecting.
The Reed Cutter has a contemporary setting, though it might have taken place any time in the past thousand years. On a fine September evening, the narrator decides to make a solitary excursion to the site of an ancient imperial palace south... With a precision and brilliance unmatched perhaps by any other novelist of the twentieth century, Junichiro Tanizaki interweaves a sense of his countr...
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64,26 zł |
The Makioka Sisters
ISBN: 9780679761648 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Junichirō Tanizaki's magisterial evocation of a proud Osaka family in decline during the years immediately before World War II is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century and a classic of international literature.
Tsuruko, the eldest sister of the once-wealthy Makioka family, clings obstinately to the prestige of her family name even as her husband prepares to move their household to Tokyo, where that name means nothing. Sachiko compromises valiantly to secure the future of her younger sisters. The shy, unmarried Yukiko is a hostage to her family's exacting... Junichirō Tanizaki's magisterial evocation of a proud Osaka family in decline during the years immediately before World War II is arguably the gr...
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77,11 zł |
Gold & Silver
ISBN: 9781959002048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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62,33 zł |
Lob des Schattens : Entwurf einer japanischen Ästhetik
ISBN: 9783717540823 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2010 / 91 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Entwurf einer japanischen Ästhetik§Japanische Räume beeindrucken durch karge Schlichtheit und ungewohntes Halbdunkel. Am Beispiel des Umgangs mit Farbe, Licht und Schatten gelingt Tanizaki Jun ichiro (1886-1965) der geniale Entwurf einer japanischen Ästhetik. Einfühlsam und originell spürt dieser vielzitierte Essay den Unterschieden zwischen östlicher und westlicher Kultur nach. Ein Muss für alle, die sich für Form und Gestaltung - nicht nur die japanische - interessieren: der Manesse-Bestseller in neuer, bibliophiler Ausstattung!§
Entwurf einer japanischen Ästhetik§Japanische Räume beeindrucken durch karge Schlichtheit und ungewohntes Halbdunkel. Am Beispiel des Umgangs mit F...
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82,59 zł |
Der Schlüssel
ISBN: 9783036961590 / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ein raffinierter Tagebuchroman von einem der bedeutendsten Autoren Japans, über die dunkle Seite der Sexualität, die Leser auch heute noch in Bann zieht. »Der Schlüssel« ist die Geschichte einer langjährigen Ehe, die von Frust und mangelnder Leidenschaft geprägt ist. Als der Schlüssel zu einem geheimen Tagebuch auftaucht, kommen die unterdrückten Obsessionen und Sehnsüchte ans Licht, mit fatalen Folgen. »Ich schreibe dies nieder, weil ich es nicht mehr ertrage, nicht direkt mit ihr über die Intimitäten unseres Schlafzimmers sprechen zu können. Von nun an werde ich ohne...
Ein raffinierter Tagebuchroman von einem der bedeutendsten Autoren Japans, über die dunkle Seite der Sexualität, die Leser auch heute noch in Bann z...
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59,65 zł |
In Praise of Shadows: Vintage Design Edition
ISBN: 9781784875572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizakis wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture.
‘We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.’ This book is in fact a portal. Reading it, you will be led by Junichiro Tanizaki’s light touch into a mysterious and tranquil world of darkness and shadows, where gold flashes in the gloom and a deep stillness reigns. If you are accustomed to equate light with clarity, the... A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizakis wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture.
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56,74 zł |
Quicksand
ISBN: 9780099485612 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. This work presents a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko's mild-mannered husband.
Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. This work presents a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil. Its the...
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51,58 zł |
Die geheime Geschichte des Fürsten von Musashi
ISBN: 9783862056651 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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120,45 zł |
The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man
ISBN: 9781400079001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all. In The Key, a middle-aged professor plies his wife of thirty years with any number of stimulants, from brandy to a handsome young lover, in order to reach new heights of pleasure. Their alternating diaries record their separate adventures, but whether for themselves or each other becomes the question. Diary of a Mad Old Man records, with alternating humor and sadness, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi's...
These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex ha...
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72,62 zł |