Quicksand
(Book)
Uniform Title
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Status
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 21 cm
Street Date
9402
Language
English
Notes
Description
The voice is insistent, attractive, persuasive - the voice of a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. Sonoko Kakiuchi's story, however, is unsettlingly at odds with her image. It is a tale of infatuation and deceit, of deliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko's mild-mannered lawyer husband. And at its center - seducing, manipulating, enslaving - is one of the most extraordinary characters ever created by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, the beautiful and totally corrupt art student Mitsuko.
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Partly a black comedy - the plot sometimes resembles bedroom farce - partly an exploration of sexual obsession and pain, Quicksand is the last major Tanizaki novel to be translated, largely because of the extreme difficulty in capturing the narrator's precise tone in English. In this Howard Hibbett has succeeded brilliantly. As a master-work on the level of Some Prefer Nettles and Diary of a Mad Old Man, and as a triumph of the translator's art, Quicksand is both important and utterly engrossing.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Tanizaki, J. (1994). Quicksand (First American edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 1886-1965. 1994. Quicksand. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 1886-1965. Quicksand Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō. Quicksand First American edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
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