The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki's Fiction

by Anthony H. Chambers

At the time of his death in 1965, at the age of 79, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro had been writing fiction, plays, essays, poems, and translations almost without interruption for more than fifty-five years. In this series of meditations on seven of Tanizaki's novels and novellas, the renowned translator Anthony Chambers focuses on the thread of fantasy that Tanizaki weaves throughout his work. He examines Tanizaki's subtle use of storytelling devices to evoke...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674796748
• ISBN13: 9780674796744
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"