Naomi (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
- First Published: 1924
- Type of Work: Comedy of manners
- Time of Work: The 1920’s
- Setting: Tokyo and surrounding areas
- Principal Characters: Joji Kawai, Naomi, Kumagai, Hamada
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Adultery, Japan or Japanese people, East and West, Tokyo
- Locales: Tokyo, Japan
The Novel
Naomi is an ironic account of a seemingly proper gentleman in his mid-twenties who meets a young girl named Naomi, who is working as a waitress in a cafe. The story is told by its protagonist, Joji Kawai. Fascinated by her Western-sounding name and her sensuous beauty, which reminds him of American silent film star Mary Pickford (highly popular in Japan in the 1920’s), Joji decides that he intends to marry Naomi; soon he falls into a Pygmalion-like relationship as he attempts to tame this selfish and willful creature. Joji gives Naomi money for...
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