Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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The history of the “novel” in Japan is quite different from its history in the West, and the distinctions normally observed between the short story and the novel do not apply there. If, arbitrarily, one refers to Japanese works of fewer than one hundred pages of prose fiction as “short stories,” Jun’ichirō Tanizaki is as famous for his short stories as for his longer works. Typical of his early period, “Shisei” (1910; “The Tattooer,” 1963) indicates his early interest in sexual symbolism. “Akuma” (1912; Satan) deals with male...
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