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"Golden Death" Author: [Japanese] Tanizaki Junichiro Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Original title: Golden Death Translator: Tan Siyuan Series: Tanizaki Junichiro Works Series
"Golden Death" Author: [Japanese] Tanizaki Junichiro Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Original title: Golden Death Translator: Tan Siyuan Series: Tanizaki Junichiro Works Series
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Introduction · · · · · ·
The first translation and publication in the Chinese world, the ultimate embodiment of artistic supremacy
A lifelong pursuit of the beauty of the human body, a gorgeous death that achieves true art
Novels that Tanizaki Junichiro refused to include in his collection
Two typical Tanizaki works
"Golden Death" is a representative collection of short stories by Junichiro Tanizaki in his early years. It consists of two novels, "Killing Ayan" and "Golden Death". "Killing Ayan" tells the story of a couple, Shinsuke and Ayan, who eloped and lived a ridiculous life. They found that violence could bring them pleasure. Later, because Ayan fell in love with someone else, Shinsuke killed her. "Golden Death" tells the story of "my" boyhood friend Okamura, who pursued the beauty of human flesh. Many years later, he created art with living people in Hakone, covered his body with gold foil, and suddenly died at the moment of reaching the peak of happiness.
These two works of Junichiro Tanizaki were shocking and tried their best to describe the beauty of sensuality. This was the origin of his early name of "Devil School", which attracted attention in the literary world at that time. Yukio Mishima once said that he was greatly shocked after reading them.
Tanizaki Junichiro is good at incorporating delicate personal perceptions into the description of real things, creating a unique charm that transcends ordinary ideas.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) is one of the representative writers in the history of modern Japanese literature and a master of Japanese aesthetic literature. His creative career spanned the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods in Japan, and he achieved rich creative achievements. In 1910, he made his debut in the literary world with "Tattoo", and then successively published works such as "Boy", "Devil" and "Rao Taro". These works describe sex with Western aesthetic consciousness and describe the beauty of women through the sadomasochism of the flesh, which is called "demonism". In the later period of his creation, Junichiro Tanizaki's life underwent a major change, which made his works tend to move closer to traditional beauty. In 1949, Junichiro Tanizaki was awarded the 8th Order of Culture. He died on July 30, 1969 at Xiangbi Mountain in Yugawara at the age of 79.
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