29 May 2014 – The Modern Novel

Jun’ichiro Tanizaki: お艶殺し (A Spring-Time Case)

21 August 201529 May 2014 by tmn

The latest addition to my website is Jun’ichiro Tanizaki‘s お艶殺し (A Spring-Time Case). This is the earliest of Tanizaki’s works to be translated into English, though the English text is very difficult to get hold of, having first been published in 1927 in Japan and never reprinted. This fairly short novel tells the story of … Read more

Sebastiano Vassalli: La notte della cometa (The Night of the Comet)

20 August 201529 May 2014 by tmn

The latest addition to my website is Sebastiano Vassalli‘s La notte della cometa (The Night of the Comet), surprisingly translated into English and, though out of print, readily available. This is a novelised biography of the Italian poet Dino Campana, a poète maudit. Vassalli has chosen to use the novel form rather than write a … Read more