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Some Prefer Nettles

By Junichiro Tanizaki

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Some Prefer Nettles

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Junichiro Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles is an exquisitely nuanced exploration of the allure of ancient Japanese tradition-and the profound disquiet that accompanied its passing. It is the 1920s in Tokyo, and Kaname and his wife Misako are trapped in a parody of a progressive Western marriage. No longer attracted to one another, they have long since stopped sleeping together and Kaname has sanctioned his wife's liaisons with another man. But at the heart of their arrangement lies a sadness that impels Kaname to take refuge in the past, in the serene rituals of the classical puppet theater-and in a growing fixation with his father-in-law's mistress. Some Prefer Nettles is an ethereally suggestive, psychologically complex exploration of the crisis every culture faces as it hurtles headfirst into modernity.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
226
Release Date:
1995-09-26
Publication Date:
1995-09-26
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679752692
ISBN13:
9780679752691
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
263 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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