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Elogio de las sombras

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unichirō Tanizaki, uno de los novelistas más influyentes del siglo XX, nos propone en este breve texto un lugar poco común desde el que enseñarnos a la penumbra. La sombra no solo define el contorno de las cosas, sino que les confiere alma y misterio. La penumbra deja espacio a la imaginación, invita al silencio y concede profundidad a lo efímero. Así, lo cotidiano se reinventa desde sus la arquitectura, la cerámica o la comida adquieren dimensiones distintas; lo doméstico se vuelve ritual, lo funcional se vuelve poético.
En Elogio de las sombras, Tanizaki traza un viaje por la sensibilidad estética nipona, contraponiendo los tonos suaves y profundos de la tradición oriental a la luminosidad deslumbrante de la modernidad occidental. Un ensayo que, gracias a su estilo íntimo, preciso y visceral, ha permitido que, casi cien años después, siga siendo un clásico indiscutible de la literatura universal.

50 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 11, 2025

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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

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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.

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