Junichiro Tanizaki was born in Tokyo in 1886. He was “the outstanding Japanese novelist of the century” (Edmund White, The New York Times Book Review). His numerous works include The Makioka Sisters, Some Prefer Nettles, and In Praise of Shadows.
Translated by J. Keith Vincent
Translated by Michael P. Cronin
Translated from the Japanese by Paul McCarthy
Dreamlike immediacy. You have entered that place between realms, where the novelist Junichiro Tanizaki so comfortably dwells.—John Biscello, Riot Material
Devils in Daylight, from 1918, reads like a breathless snuff film cowritten by Poe and Simenon.—Pico Iyer, The New York Review of Books
A writer of wicked subtlety and grace.—Sunday Times (London)
What unfolds is a murder mystery that is an homage to the classic American writer Edgar Allen Poe, and a meditation on the art of fiction. The author, Junichiro Tanizaki, was arguably Japan’s greatest twentieth-century novelist.—Caravan
A rumination about the nature of fiction itself.—Kirkus
Tanizaki is a very brilliant novelist.—Haruki Murakami
Tanizaki is one of my favorites. His books are about love and very often perverse aspects of love.—Henry Miller
Tanizaki was a great writer. He understood the fetish-making fecundity of love, and the satisfactions it offers even while giving pain, and its perverse, inverse accountings.—John Updike
The outstanding Japanese novelist of this century.—Edmund White
