The Maids
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0811228746
ISBN-13
9780811228749
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Imprint
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 30th, 2019
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
212 grams
Dimensions
20.40 x 13.70 x 1.10 cms
Ksh 2,350.00
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A major discovery: Tanizaki’s wonderful final novel—now available as a paperback
The Maids, Tanizaki's final novel, sparkles like a jewel. Over the years—before, during, and after WWII—many women work in the pampered, elegant household of the famous author Chikura Raikichi, his wife, and her younger sister. Though the family's quite well-to-do, the house is small; the proximity of the maids helps perhaps to explain Raikichi's extremely close, and somewhat eroticized, observation of all their little ways. In the sensualist patrician Raikichi, Tanizaki offers a richly ironic self-portrait, but he presents as well an exquisitely nuanced chronicle of change and loss: centuries' old values and manners are vanishing, and here—in the evanescent beauty of all the small gestures and intricacies of private life—we find a whole world passing away.
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