Naomi
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0394536630 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 237 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Junichiro Tanizaki’s Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.
From Publishers Weekly The Westernization of a Japanese bar girl spells trouble for her husband. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. "Charm, lucidity, fascination with perverse passion and relentless emotional honesty are all here in subtle force," said PW.
MJC said The primer to Tanizaki's works, a must-read.. When I first picked up "Naomi", known as "Chijin no Ai" in Japanese, it was in a Japanese literature class at my University. My first exposure to Tanizaki came in reading a short story called "The Tattooer" ("Shisei", which can be found in another collection of his short stories called ". Do you enjoy traveling inside the mind of a desperate Do you enjoy traveling inside the mind of a desperate, hopeless, and insecure man who will stop at nothing to court a little girl? If you answered yes to this question, you have better get your hands on this novel. This man simply infuriated me throughout the entire book. His lack of sel. "Short Caricature of Japanese Modern Girl" according to Duy D. Nguyen. A very short and sweet book that caricatures the Japanese modern girl who emerged in the early to mid 20th century. Some might say it's a conservative reaction to the westernizing Japanese woman. I have had the fortunate of living in Japan and never meeting a character like Naomi so the