TANIZAKI: Seven Japanese Tales 谷崎润一郎：七个日本故事 (ISBN 9784805310168)

  　In these seven stories, Tanizaki, the author of The Makioka Sisters explores the territory where love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of refined cruelty. A young man is erotically imprisoned by the memory of his mother. A tattoo artist transforms the body of an exquisite woman into a teeming canvas of her inner nature. A beautiful blind musician exacts the ultimate sacrifice from the man who both her lover and her disciple. These and other gripping scenar-ios of possession are told with such poise that Seven Japanese Tales is guaranteed to fascinate frorn begining to end, leaving a haunting impression on the reader.