Reviews

"Ito has produced a valuable study of Japan's greatest modern novelist. No one else has written on this scale, and with this degree of critical acumen, about Tanizaki, and on one else has assessed Tanizaki's real significance on the modern Japanese cultural scene as intelligently as Ito has done. It is a fine book that should be read by Japanologists, comparativists, and readers of serious fiction." - Paul Anderer, Columbia University,