刺青・秘密

by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 谷崎潤一郎

肌をさされてもだえる人の姿にいいしれぬ愉悦を感じる刺青師清吉が年来の宿願であった光輝ある美女の背に蜘蛛を彫りおえた時、今度は……。性的倒錯の世界を描き、美しいものに征服される喜び、美即ち強きものである作者独自の美の世界が顕わされた処女作「刺青」。作者唯一の告白書にして懺悔録である自伝小説「異端者の悲しみ」ほかに「少年」「秘密」など、初期の短編全七編を収める。

Genres: Classics, Short Stories

275 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Wiza Han · Rating 5 out of 5]

a fantastic world of Tanizaki's aestheticism. Actually I ve red this novel--Himitsu:the secret in Japanese and watched the movie of Irezumi. The both stories themselves are covered fully by his absolute aesthetic imaginations, although his every word of a text is magic, I adore all the vocabularies that he used in the novels. reading his novel will make me jump to the novel setting places, across time and space.