The Maids
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Product Details
Author:
Junichiro Tanizaki, Michael P. Cronin
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
176
Publisher:
New Directions (July 30, 2019)
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9780811228749
ISBN-10:
0811228746
Weight:
6.08oz
Dimensions:
5.4" x 8" x 0.5"
Case Pack:
60
File:
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$16.95
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$13.05
Publisher Identifier:
P-WWN
Discount Code:
B
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
New Directions
Overview
The Maids, Tanizaki's final novel, sparkles like a jewel. Over the years—before, during, and after WWII—many women work in the pampered, elegant household of the famous author Chikura Raikichi, his wife, and her younger sister. Though the family's quite well-to-do, the house is small; the proximity of the maids helps perhaps to explain Raikichi's extremely close, and somewhat eroticized, observation of all their little ways. In the sensualist patrician Raikichi, Tanizaki offers a richly ironic self-portrait, but he presents as well an exquisitely nuanced chronicle of change and loss: centuries' old values and manners are vanishing, and here—in the evanescent beauty of all the small gestures and intricacies of private life—we find a whole world passing away.
