Word: makioka
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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Large stretches of The Makioka Sisters are dull enough to make U.S. readers wonder if they are not in the hands of the Japanese sandman. Yet Junichiro Tanizaki, 71, is one of Japan's leading novelists, and this book, written a decade ago, is a neat compendium of what is best and worst in contemporary Japanese writing. Esoteric discussions of Tokyo v. Osaka folkways lead imperceptibly to the dramatic outer and inner conflict of a Japan in transition. The core of meaning, which the Westerner will perhaps find hard to penetrate, is the concept of a heroism that never...
...MAKIOKA SISTERS (530 pp.)−Junichiro Tanlzaki−Knopf...
...land, an unmarried girl approaching 30 is apt to get an attack of the will-I's; Will I, oh will I ever find a husband? In Japan, this question throws the girl's entire family into a near panic. The Makioka Sisters is the story of a great mate hunt conducted with all the fussy protocol, near misses and ever-lurking dangers of a de luxe African safari...