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- catalog abstract "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. 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.".
- catalog alternative "Manji. English".
- catalog contributor b5670712.
- catalog contributor b5670713.
- catalog coverage "Osaka (Japan) Fiction.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog extent "224 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Quicksand.".
- catalog identifier "039458547X :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Quicksand.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng jpn".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House,".
- catalog relation "Quicksand.".
- catalog spatial "Osaka (Japan) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "895.6/344 20".
- catalog subject "Art students Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PL839.A7 M3613 1994".
- catalog subject "Tanizaki, Junichirō, 1886-1965 Translations into English.".
- catalog title "Manji. English".
- catalog title "Quicksand / Junʾichirō Tanizaki ; translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett.".
- catalog type "Black humor (Literature) gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".