Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) was a Japanese author, and one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki. Some of his works present a rather shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions; others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in 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. The results are complex, ironic, demure, and provocative.
Series
Books
Seven Japanese Tales
1963
Le Meurtre d'O-Tsuya
1915
The Maids
1962
La madre del capitán Shigemoto
2006
El muchacho y otros relatos de infancia cruel
1911
Naomi
1924
El demonio y otros cuentos
2022
The Makioka Sisters
1948
In Black and White
1928
Quicksand
1928
Racconti del crimine. Volume 1
2019
Diary of a Mad Old Man
1961
Retrato de Shunkin
1932
Longing and Other Stories
2022
Il veleno di Afrodite
1994
Sasameyuki-vol2
1955
Cuentos de amor
2016
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
2018
Devils in Daylight
1918
The Tattooer
1910
The Reed Cutter & Captain Shigemoto's Mother
1949
The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man
1961
A Cat, a Man, and Two Women
1936
The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi & Arrowroot
1931
Modern Japanese Short Stories
Twenty-Five Stories by Japan's Leading Writers
1962
Childhood Years
A Memoir
1957
In Praise of Shadows
1933
Sasameyuki-vol1
1949
Red Roofs and Other Stories (Volume 79)
2016
Kaiki
Cuentos de terror y locura
2017
Sulla maestria
1933
The Siren’s Lament
Essential Stories
2023
The Key
1956
The Story of Tomoda and Matsunaga
1926
La sociedad gastronómica y otros cuentos para gourmets
2016
Some Prefer Nettles
1928
