Childhood Years

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-472-07367-2
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro (1886–1965) takes a meandering look back on his early life in Tokyo. He reflects on his upbringing, family, and the capital city with a conversational—and not necessarily honest—eye, offering insights into his later life and his writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tanizaki, Jun'Ichiro

Über Autor(innen)

Paul McCarthy is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Culture at Surugadai University, Saitama, Japan. He has translated Tanizaki's The Little Kingdom, Professor Rado and A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, which won the Japan-America Friendship Commission Prize. He co-translated with Anthony H. Chambers the story collections Red Roofs and Other Stories and The Gourmet Club, a Sextet, also by Tanizaki.  He has translated short story collections by Nakajima Atsushi (The Moon over the Mountain, with Nobuko Ochner) and Kanai Mieko (The Word Book),  101 Modern Japanese Poems, and two volumes of Shiba Ryotaro‘s Clouds above the Hill.