Adriana Boscaro

Storia di un tagliabambù

Franco Gatti

Massimo Raveri

Rethinking Japan: Social sciences, ideology & thought

Anthony Hood Chambers

This volume presents 18 eighteen essays, written by scholars from six countries, on Tanizaki Jun’ichiro (1886–1965), one of the great writers of the 20th century. The essays were originally prepared for a landmark international symposium in Venice in 1995, at which 22 speakers addressed an audience of about two hundred students and scholars in the Aula Magna of the University of Venice. Topics include Tanizaki’s fiction, plays, and film scenarios; his aesthetics; his place in Japanese intellectual history; his depiction of the West; his use of humor; and film adaptations of his works. In 1964 Tanizaki was elected to honorary membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the first Japanese to be so honored; and it is widely believed that he was being considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The International Symposium in Venice

A Tanizaki Feast

These papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies.

Social Sciences, Ideology and Thought

Rethinking Japan Vol 2

Literature, Visual Arts & Linguistics

Rethinking Japan Vol 1.

This bibliography of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's work cites over 250 translations of his fiction and nearly 200 essays about his life and work, evidence that he is a writer of world renown who has a universal appeal that transcends time and place. His depictions of the exotic and erotic of Japan are popular with many foreigners, and he is a superb master of the art of storytelling. The purpose of this volume is to provide access to those works of Tanizaki that have been translated into European languages and to facilitate further research on Tanizaki by listing relevant studies on him. The bibliography catalogs in a user-friendly way the translations of Tanizaki's works into various European languages and the scholarly and popular writings about him. A final section provides the first comprehensive list of Tanizaki's works that have been made into film. The films are arranged by year of release, and entries provide information including the director, screenplay writer, and cinematographer. This volume challenges scholars to look beyond national, linguistic, or generic boundaries when thinking about the reception or study of Tanizaki's literature. It also forces the reader to confront in concrete terms some of the questions raised by translation and adaptation studies: questions about a text's "afterlife, " about "national" literature, about the significance of the "original" versus the later versions. The bibliography will be of great value to scholars and researchers interested in these issues and in Tanizaki.

A Bibliography of Translations and Studies

Tanizaki in Western Languages

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Rethinking Japan: Literature, visual arts & linguistics

Anthony Chambers

This volume presents 18 eighteen essays, written by scholars from six countries, on Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), one of the great writers of the 20th century. The essays were originally prepared for a landmark international symposium in Venice in 1995, at which 22 speakers addressed an audience of about two hundred students and scholars in the Aula Magna of the University of Venice. Topics include Tanizaki's fiction, plays, and film scenarios; his aesthetics; his place in Japanese intellectual history; his depiction of the West; his use of humor; and film adaptations of his works. In 1964 Tanizaki was elected to honorary membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the first Japanese to be so honored; and it is widely believed that he was being considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Adriana Boscaro

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