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"The Makioka Snow" Author: [Japanese] Junichiro Tanizaki Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Translator: Chu Yuanxi Series: Works of Junichiro Tanizaki
"The Makioka Snow" Author: [Japanese] Junichiro Tanizaki Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Translator: Chu Yuanxi Series: Works of Junichiro Tanizaki
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The Makioka Sisters, written by Junichiro Tanizaki, is about the four sisters of the famous Makioka family in Osaka. The main plot is the blind date story of the beautiful and quiet third sister Yukiko, and also touches on the local customs, social events, foreign exchanges, etc. The work is like a colorful and elegant painting scroll, showing the full picture of the life of the upper class in the Kansai region of modern Japan. It is praised as the best folk novel with a classical style.
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The Makioka Snow is not only the pinnacle of Junichiro Tanizaki's personal works, but also one of the outstanding representative works of the entire Showa literary world. French writer Sartre praised this work as "the highest masterpiece of modern Japanese literature."
It is a folk novel that describes the love story between young men and women from the middle class in Japan. It tells the life stories of the four sisters of the wealthy Makioka family in Osaka. The story revolves around the second daughter Sachiko and her husband's efforts to arrange the marriage of the third daughter Yukiko and the fourth daughter Taeko. The novel unfolds as the main plot, and ends with Yukiko's successful blind date. The novel adopts a realistic approach that focuses on emotion, blends emotion with scenery, and emotion with events, and successfully creates many characters headed by Yukiko. The author is good at selecting...
About the Author · · · · · ·
Tanizaki Junichiro (1886-1965) is a representative writer of Japanese aesthetic literature. He entered the literary world in 1910 with "Tattoo" and "Kirin". His representative works include "Love of a Fool", "卐", "Spring Song", "Ode to Shadows", "The Makioka Snow", "Mother of Major General Shigeki", "The Key", "Diary of a Mad Leper", etc. He won the Mainichi Publishing Literature Award, the Asahi Cultural Award, and the Mainichi Art Award. In 1949, he was awarded the Order of Culture of Japan.
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