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title: "Quicksand"
brand: "junichiro tanizaki"
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# Quicksand

**Brand:** junichiro tanizaki
**Price:** € 40.60
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Quicksand by junichiro tanizaki
- **How much does it cost?** € 40.60 with free shipping
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## Description

Quicksand

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Love, manipulations and deceit.
  

*by E***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2018*

I've really enjoyed this book. There's love, manipulation and deceit and even when all is said and done, it is still impossible to disentangle the three.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Classic Bunraku
  

*by G***O on Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2009*

Bunraku is the unique puppet theater of Japan, in which nearly life-size puppets, manipulated by visible puppeteers in black, mime the classic melodramas of Chikamatsu while the narrative is chanted to the accompaniment of the shamisen. Most famous of all Bunraku plays is "The Lovers' Suicide", a piece of theater as central to Japanese culture as The Iliad was to Greek or Goethe's faust is to German. 20th C writer Junichiro Tanizaki would have known ever detail of The Lovers' Suicide from Buraku and Kabuki, and however bizarre and modernistic Tanizaki might seem to an English reader, he was profoundly aware of his place in Japanese tradition. "Quicksand", a novel written in the middle of his career, is Bunraku to the core -- a tale of a lovers' triangle, of obsession and jealousy, and of suicide, with just a hint of "possession" by fox-spirits. Even the narrative structure smacks of puppetry; the central figure of the lovers' triangle 'chants' the events to an audience of one, presumably the novelist himself.What begins as erotic teasing evolves slowly into masochistic hysteria and emotional pornography. It would be easy to hate this novel if it were written by an Italian or an Icelander, but from within the insular semiotics of Japanese literature, it makes a kind of gaudy sense. Western readers will inevitably interpret it as a 'psychological' depiction of obsession, to which a Japanese reader might respond "so be it, but then all of Japanese history is a depiction of obsession." Are you ready to perceive beauty in an overwrought, maudlin desperation? Possibly then you are Japanese enough to appreciate Tanizaki.I'd love to be able to read Tanizaki in Japanese. I studied the language furiously for several years, I lived in Kyoto for a year, I became fluent enough to have meaningful conversations with Japanese friends though never fluent enough to follow their exchanges with each other, but I never came close to knowing enough "kanji" characters to read Tanizaki. I noticed, curiously, that the more fluent I became in Japanese, the more skeptical my Japanese friends became of my communication. At a certain point, it seemed, my access to the culture had to be all or nothing, an impossible assimilation which would have required me to stop being myself. Reading Japanese novels - Tanizaki, Kawabata, Oe - often gives me the same eerie feeling of being ineluctably foreign, a "gai-jin" to the soles of my feet.I've rated this novel at four stars solely in comparison to Tanizaki's other masterpieces - The Makioka Sisters, Some Prefer Nettles, Naomi - rather than on an absolute scale. Compared to a Dan Brown or a Joyce Carol Oates, even a laundry list from Tanizaki would deserve a whole constellation of stars.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A triangle of four
  

*by L***O on Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2014*

Beautiful, dark drama. Two women, one man and a suffering ghost in a domestic love story. One of Tanizaki best.

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