The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man

Junichiro Tanizaki, Howard Hibbett

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English

Vintage Books
15 September 2004

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Vintage International

These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all.

In The Key, a middle-aged professor plies his wife of thirty years with any number of stimulants, from brandy to a handsome young lover, in order to reach new heights of pleasure. Their alternating diaries record their separate adventures, but whether for themselvesor each other becomes the question. Diary of a Mad Old Man records, with alternating humor and sadness, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi's discovery that even his stroke-ravaged body still contains a raging libido, especially in the unwitting presence of his chic, mysterious daughter-in-law.

By: Junichiro Tanizaki
Translated by: Howard Hibbett
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 301g
ISBN: 9781400079001
ISBN 10: 1400079004
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 15 September 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man

Japan's great modern novelist E. Tanizaki created a lifelong series of ingenious variations on a diominan theme: the power of love to energize and destroy. --Chicago Tribune The Key is a story about sex and marriage that is as explicit as any novel on the theme since Lady Chatterly's Lover. --Time The diarist Utsugi is an absolutely convincing creationEfunny and ultimately appealing. --The Atlantic