The Tattoo and Other Stories [単行本]

The Tattoo and Other Stories の 商品概要

• 内容紹介

  This dazzling collection of short fiction by literary master Junichiro Tanizaki features three stories that appear here in English for the first time, plus fresh translations of his best-known classics. The writings span his career and include harrowing depictions of the Great Kanto Earthquake, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and the black-market economy that sprang up after the war.
  
  Included in this volume are:
  
  ・The Tattoo: A sadomasochistic tattoo artist inscribes a spider on the object of his obsession, awakening her own sadistic impulses
  ・From the Life of Shunkin: A beautiful blind musician is mysteriously attacked, and her lover commits an unthinkable act
  ・An Account of Cruelty: A couple struggles with the intimate aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
  ・Plus five other iconic Tanizaki tales
  
  Award-winning translators Anthony Chambers, Paul McCarthy and J. Keith Vincent bring their consummate skill and knowledge of Tanizaki to the volume. Together, the stories reflect the author's lifelong fascination with the darkest passions of humankind and the full range of possibility in the Japanese language.
  
  刺青（英文版）
  ◎谷崎潤一郎による珠玉の短編小説集
  ◎新訳「刺青」「春琴抄」「残虐記」ほか５作品を収録

• 著者について

  Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (タニザキ　ジュンイチロウ)
  Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) is widely considered one of Japan's finest authors. Born in the heart of Tokyo as the city began to modernize, he studied Japanese literature at Tokyo University and made his debut with the acclaimed short story "The Tattoo." Following the great Kanto earthquake of 1923, he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region, the setting for his masterpiece "The Makioka Sisters".
  
  Paul McCarthy (ポール マッカーシー)
  Paul McCarthy has taught Japanese language, literature, and religion, as well as English language and literature and comparative literature, at universities in America and Japan. He is an emeritus professor of Surugadai University. He continues to translate and comment on Japanese literature, notably on Junichiro Tanizaki and Mishima Yukio. His translation of Tanizaki's A Cat, a Man, and Two Women won the Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize in 1991.
  
  Anthony H. Chambers (アンソニー チャンバーズ)
  Anthony H. Chambers is the author of Remembering Tanizaki Junichiro and Matsuko and translator of many works by Junichiro Tanizaki, including "Naomi" and "The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi". For his study and translation of Ueda Akinari's "Tales of Moonlightand Rain", he received the Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize. He is Professor Emeritus of Japanese at Arizona State University and has also taught at Wesleyan University and the Associated Kyoto Program.

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