nunia [个人文集]
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作者:nunia 在 寒山小径 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
cat is too cunning for me. i wouldn't be able to appreciate their petty or witty moods if any of the kind were sent to my care.
Tanizaki was a great cat fancier who kept a pair throughout his later years, loving one but hating the other, Jehovah-like.
A bit more on author's personal life which i find somewhat interesting. In the mid 1930s Tanizaki was in the process of ending his second, short-lived marriage to Tomiko in order to wed Matsuko, who remained his wife and a major source of literary inspiration until his death three decades later. Thus, the topic of divorce and remarriage and the subsequent complications must have been very much on his mind; and it was natural for him to make it the theme of a novel. But, though the theme was suggested by his own situation, the individual characters are clearly invented. One may suspect certain links between the author himself and Shozo ( a taste for pleasure, multiple involvments with women, and, above all, a passion for cats); but no one who knows the biography would suggest that Tomiko was sanything like Shinako, or Matsuko like Fukuko. Nor was there a scheming parent in the wings when Tanizaki divorced: his mother had died almost twenty years before. Thus the novel as a whole is certainly not autobiographical, though its timing may be said to be...
作者:nunia 在 寒山小径 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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