wyszukanych pozycji: 44
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In Black and White
ISBN: 9780231185189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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352,19 |
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The Gourmet Club: A Sextetvolume 81
ISBN: 9780472053353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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86,50 |
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The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man
ISBN: 9781400079001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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64,43 |
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The Siren's Lament: Essential Stories
ISBN: 9781805332220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2026 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The sage Confucius visits a cultured duke, whose pursuit of virtue is threatened by the desires of his dazzling, malicious consort. A naïve servant elopes with his master's daughter, only to be plunged headlong into a world of murder and corruption. Exhausted by a lifestyle of never-ending debauchery, a young prince finds himself obsessed with a sorrowful, beguiling mermaid. These three stories, in a gorgeous new translation by Bryan Karetnyk, distil the essence of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's shorter fiction: the commingling of Japanese and Chinese mythologies, the dark side of desire and the...
The sage Confucius visits a cultured duke, whose pursuit of virtue is threatened by the desires of his dazzling, malicious consort. A naïve servant e...
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55,19 |
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In Praise of Shadows
ISBN: 9780099283577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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A Cat, A Man, And Two Women
ISBN: 9781911547037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Devils in Daylight
ISBN: 9780811228756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Quicksand
ISBN: 9780099485612 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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50,16 |
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Longing and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780231202152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
85,30 |
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Naomi
ISBN: 9789357894722 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
76,59 |
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Der Schlüssel
ISBN: 9783036961590 / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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58,01 |
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Red Roofs and Other Stories: Volume 79
ISBN: 9780472073276 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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147,74 |
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In Black and White
ISBN: 9780231185196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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91,80 |
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The Secret History of The Lord of Musashi
ISBN: 9780099283171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Two short novels, published initially in the 1930s. Musashi deals with the dark obsessions of a 16th-century warlord. Arrowroot also touches on the pursuit of legend, but in a different mode, that of the uniquely Japanese form of the essay novel.
Two short novels, published initially in the 1930s. Musashi deals with the dark obsessions of a 16th-century warlord. Arrowroot also touches on the pu...
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50,16 |
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Childhood Years: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780472053674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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106,91 |
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The Makioka Sisters
ISBN: 9781857151558 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This tale of domestic oppression centres on the once prosperous, now declining, Makiota family which is struggling to marry off one of their daughters. A portrait of a family and society striving to preserve their self-respect in the face of change, as innovation and tradition clash.
This tale of domestic oppression centres on the once prosperous, now declining, Makiota family which is struggling to marry off one of their daughters...
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85,30 |
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The Key
ISBN: 9780099289999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A diary of a middle-aged man who is in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's desires ...until the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. Ikuko realises she has found the key to his very soul.
A diary of a middle-aged man who is in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of ...
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50,16 |
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In Praise of Shadows: Vintage Design Edition
ISBN: 9781784875572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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.
‘We find beauty not ... |
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The Glow of the Dim
ISBN: 9781967751471 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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30,57 |
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Red Roofs and Other Stories: Volume 79
ISBN: 9780472053278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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cena:
86,50 |