Devils in Daylight
Junichiro Tanizaki
Devils in Daylight
Junichiro Tanizaki
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Now in paperback, a suspenseful early novella from “the outstanding Japanese novelist of this century” (Edmund White).
"A rumination about the nature of fiction itself."
"Tanizaki laminates a murder mystery and psychological study onto a rumination about the nature of fiction itself."
"This captivating short novel exemplifies why Tanizaki is considered an innovator of modern Japanese literature. The prose is cunning and compelling, evoking classic Asian folklore and elements of Don Quixote."
"Devils in Daylight, from 1918, reads like a breathless snuff film cowritten by Poe and Simenon."
"It is no bad thing to be reminded from time to time that Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s remarkably fresh and intimate voice is speaking to us across a gulf of years and cultures."
"The outstanding Japanese novelist of this century."
"An absorbing read...quite likely you’ll gulp it all down in a single sitting."
"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."
"Tanizaki is one of my favorites. His books are about love and very often perverse aspects of love."
Author of The Makioka Sisters, In Praise of Shadows, and A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, Junichiro Tanizaki (1886–1965) is arguably the greatest Japanese writer of the twentieth century. J. Keith Vincent is professor of Japanese and comparative literature at Boston University, and his translation of Okamoto Kanoko’s A Riot of Goldfish won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.
"A rumination about the nature of fiction itself."
"Tanizaki laminates a murder mystery and psychological study onto a rumination about the nature of fiction itself."
"This captivating short novel exemplifies why Tanizaki is considered an innovator of modern Japanese literature. The prose is cunning and compelling, evoking classic Asian folklore and elements of Don Quixote."
"Devils in Daylight, from 1918, reads like a breathless snuff film cowritten by Poe and Simenon."
"It is no bad thing to be reminded from time to time that Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s remarkably fresh and intimate voice is speaking to us across a gulf of years and cultures."
"The outstanding Japanese novelist of this century."
"An absorbing read...quite likely you’ll gulp it all down in a single sitting."
"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."
"Tanizaki is one of my favorites. His books are about love and very often perverse aspects of love."
Author of The Makioka Sisters, In Praise of Shadows, and A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, Junichiro Tanizaki (1886–1965) is arguably the greatest Japanese writer of the twentieth century. J. Keith Vincent is professor of Japanese and comparative literature at Boston University, and his translation of Okamoto Kanoko’s A Riot of Goldfish won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.