00000nam a22000008i 4500 UP-1685675941131363977 Buklod 20230918143749.0 m |o d | ta 230918s2017||||nyu gr b 000 1|eng 9780231185196 (pbk. : alk. paper) 19685925 DLC eng rda DLC eng jpn PL 839.A7 K6513 2017 Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō 1886-1965 author. Kokubyaku. English In black and white a novel Tanizaki Jun'ichiro ; translated by Phyllis I. Lyons. 1712 New York Columbia University Press 2017. pages cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Weatherhead books on Asia Includes bibliographical references. Translator's preface -- Author's words in place of a preface -- In black and white -- Author's apology -- Translator's afterword. "Black and White is a full translation of Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's 1928 novel, Kokubyaku, with an introduction that identifies the special conditions that might have made it a "lost" novel. This novel offers a window into Tanizaki's life and work at a critical transition point in his career. The introduction focuses on the moment Tanizaki astounded the literary world in 1928 by writing three novels in the same year, after several years of relative silence following the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. Two of the three (Some Prefer Nettles and Quicksand) immediately became famous; this third disappeared from view. The novel tells the story of a writer who in essence kills another writer with his writing. In it, an obsessive paranoid fantasy turns out to invade "real life," and it ends with a man confessing to a murder he did not commit. Over the course of the story, he (the character? the author?) invents a character he calls the "Shadow Man," who is out to entrap the writer (the protagonist? the author?) and destroy him. The tone of the story is comic rather than tragic, sardonic rather than dramatic. There is a peculiar ambiguity between author and character that distinguishes the story from the usual "I-novel" genre of the day; the novel is autobiographical in an unusual way, although Tanizaki was never considered an autobiographical writer. The central questions the introduction addresses are: What is autobiographical in the novel; who was killed and why; and how did that elimination help make Tanizaki a great writer?"-- Provided by publisher Authors Fiction. Autobiographical fiction. gsafd. Psychological fiction. gsafd. Lyons, Phyllis I. 1942- translator. FO UPD DAC PL 839 A7 K6513 2017 Book