Devils in Daylight
Junichiro Tanizaki
(Author)
J. Keith Vincent
(Translator)
Description
One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely able to contain his excitement, Sonomura claims that he has cracked a secret cryptographic code based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold-Bug and now knows exactly when and where a murder will take place--and they must hurry if they want to witness the murder, because it's later that very night! Sonomura has a history of lunacy and playing the amateur detective, so Takahashi is of course reluctant to believe him. Nevertheless, they stake out the secret location, and through tiny peepholes in the knotted wood, become voyeurs at the scene of a shocking crime...Atmospheric, erotic, and tense, Devils in Daylight is an early work by the master storyteller who "created a lifelong series of ingenious variations on a dominant theme: the power of love to energize and destroy" (Chicago Tribune).
Product Details
Price
$12.95
$12.04
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
July 23, 2019
Pages
96
Dimensions
5.4 X 7.8 X 0.3 inches | 0.25 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811228756
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About the Author
Author of The Makioka Sisters, In Praise of Shadows, and A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) is arguably the greatest Japanese writer of the twentieth century.
J. Keith Vincent is professor of Japanese and comparative literature at Boston University, and his translation of Okamoto Kanoko's A Riot of Goldfish won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.
Reviews
A rumination about the nature of fiction itself.
Tanizaki laminates a murder mystery and psychological study onto a rumination about the nature of fiction itself.--Devils in Daylight
It is no bad thing to be reminded from time to time that Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's remarkably fresh and intimate voice is speaking to us across a gulf of years and cultures.--Edmund Gordon"They Couldn't Cover Up" (08/18/2017)
The outstanding Japanese novelist of this century.--Edmund White
An absorbing read...quite likely you'll gulp it all down in a single sitting.--Tony Malone
Tanizaki was a great writer. He understood the fetish-making fecundity of love, and the satisfactions it offers even while giving pain, and its perverse, inverse accountings.--John Updike
Tanizaki is one of my favorites. His books are about love and very often perverse aspects of love.--Henry Miller
Devils in Daylight, from 1918, reads like a breathless snuff film cowritten by Poe and Simenon.--Pico Iyer
Tanizaki laminates a murder mystery and psychological study onto a rumination about the nature of fiction itself.--Devils in Daylight
It is no bad thing to be reminded from time to time that Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's remarkably fresh and intimate voice is speaking to us across a gulf of years and cultures.--Edmund Gordon"They Couldn't Cover Up" (08/18/2017)
The outstanding Japanese novelist of this century.--Edmund White
An absorbing read...quite likely you'll gulp it all down in a single sitting.--Tony Malone
Tanizaki was a great writer. He understood the fetish-making fecundity of love, and the satisfactions it offers even while giving pain, and its perverse, inverse accountings.--John Updike
Tanizaki is one of my favorites. His books are about love and very often perverse aspects of love.--Henry Miller
Devils in Daylight, from 1918, reads like a breathless snuff film cowritten by Poe and Simenon.--Pico Iyer
