Diary of a Mad Old Man (20th Century Classics)

Name: Diary of a Mad Old Man (20th Century Classics)
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780192821379

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178 pages1988Oxford University PressISBN 9780192821379

Older men Sick Fiction Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)Japan, fiction

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The last novel by one of the best-known Japanese writers, Junichiro Tanizaki who died in 1965 at the age of 79. youth he was strongly influenced by Poe, Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde, but after the earthquake of 1923 he moved to the gentler, more cultured Kyoto region and there became absorbed in the Japanese past and abandoned his superficial Westernization. By 1930 he had gained such recognition that his Complete works were published. as ever, and during this period he wrote of unusual sexual and psychological problems in The key (published in this country in 1961) and Diary of a mad old man. Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization. elected an Honorary Member of the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1964.

Publication Details

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1988
Pages: 178
ISBN: 9780192821379
Language: en

About Unknown Author

> Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, 24 July 1886 – 30 July 1965) was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature. The tone and subject matter of his work ranges from shocking depictions of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions to subtle portrayals of the dynamics of family life within the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society. Frequently, his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which constructions of the West and Japanese tradition are juxtaposed. >He was one of six authors on the final shortlist for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, the year before his death. --- [From Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun%27ichir%C5%8D_Tanizaki)