The Key
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This is my first Tanizaki.
This is interesting. The story is told by way of the chronological entries in two (parallel) diaries: that of the husband’s and that of the wife’s. The husband wrote the diary hoping that the wife would read it; he even intentionally dropped the key of the drawer where he kept his diary so that his wife would find it and, consequently, find his diary. The wife’s entries to her diary were scheming; she hoped that the husband would also find and read them. There are two other characters – the daughter and a young handsome professor who could be after her or the wife - which could also be part of the scheme to stimulate the sexual appetite of the wife and sustain the strife for unexplored carnal pleasures of the husband in the old age.
Tanizaki used simple sentences as one would use in a diary. This is one good read.
This is interesting. The story is told by way of the chronological entries in two (parallel) diaries: that of the husband’s and that of the wife’s. The husband wrote the diary hoping that the wife would read it; he even intentionally dropped the key of the drawer where he kept his diary so that his wife would find it and, consequently, find his diary. The wife’s entries to her diary were scheming; she hoped that the husband would also find and read them. There are two other characters – the daughter and a young handsome professor who could be after her or the wife - which could also be part of the scheme to stimulate the sexual appetite of the wife and sustain the strife for unexplored carnal pleasures of the husband in the old age.
Tanizaki used simple sentences as one would use in a diary. This is one good read.
{June 28, 2009}
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