Naomi
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- Engelsk
- 126 sider
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Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki is a masterful examination of a country's cultural ambiguity as well as a funny tale of one man's passion. The young waitress Naomi immediately captures the attention of twenty-eight-year-old Joji due to her unique, almost Western appearance. Joji adopts Naomi, who he eventually marries, and pays for the English and piano lessons that would make her into the ideal wife he has always dreamed of having. Joji is determined to make Naomi into the ideal wife and to whisk her away from the seedy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo. Nevertheless, as she gets older, Joji realises that Naomi is not the innocent child of his visions. And in Tanizaki's masterwork of vile obsession, fervour turns into humorously helpless masochism rather rapidly.
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- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal126
- Udgivelsesdato12-08-2025
- ISBN139789357894722
- Forlag CBY PRESS
- MålgruppeFrom age 0
- FormatPaperback
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10 cm
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Anonym 26/10/2017
It's a bit strange (or maybe not?) that I often find Japanese writers very contemporary! Naomi was first published in 1924, so it's far from a 21st-century novel, though I think the themes in this book are still relevant for the modern reader. What is love? What is obsession? Who takes advantage of who? Who fulfils whos dreams? I think these questions are often asked by modern people, trying to find the perfect life and partner, in a world where romance is what we learn from American movies, but the reality is Tinder.. As always Tanizaki is doing an amazing job of setting the mood and developing his characters. The story almost gave me a claustrophobic feel (in the good sense though, the writing was so engrossing) but I might be biased, since Tanizaki can hardly do anything wrong in my book.. I recommend it to anybody! (No you don't have to be a love or Tinder expert to enjoy this!)