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"Even his lighter-hearted fictions ... make us hold our breath, and the endings don't let us quite exhale."--John Updike, New Yorker
"The outstanding Japanese novelist of this century."--Edmund White, New York Times Book Review
"World-class."--Christian Science Monitor
"The remarkable sensibility of a great artist."--Anthony Burgess, Punch
"One of the greatest of twentieth-century novelists, of the rank of Thomas Mann."--Angela Carter, New Statesman
"The writing is inventive, allusive, moving with assurance and skill."--Times Literary Supplement
"A relaxed rhythm and heft, a directness and simplicity suddenly condensing into poetry and symbol, an imaginative reach that even while encompassing twists of erotic oddity ... still seems robust."--John Updike, New Yorker
He married three times; his third wife, Matsuko, shared the last thirty years of his life. Even in his seventies he was still startling readers with audacious fiction like The Key and Diary of a Mad Old Man, and a year before his death in Atami in 1965 he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the first Japanese to be so honored.
Translations of his work began to appear as early as 1917, and by now his novels have been published in at least twenty different languages. Donald Keene's assessment appears to be coming true: "It is likely that if any one writer of the period will stand the test of time and be accepted as a figure of world stature, it will be Tanizaki."
Anthony H. Chambers, Professor of Japanese at Arizona State University, has translated a number of classical and modern writers. His Tanizaki translations include Naomi, Arrowroot, The Reed Cutter, The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi, and Captain Shigemoto's Mother. He is the author of The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki's Fiction.
Paul McCarthy, Professor of Comparative Cultures at Surugadai University, has translated Tanizaki's "The Little Kingdom," "Professor Rado," Childhood Years, and A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, which won the Japan-America Friendship Commission Prize. He has also translated Takeshi Umehara's Lotus and Other Tales of Medieval Japan and Zenno Ishigami's Disciples of the Buddha.
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