/lit/ - Literature

Picked this up last night while looking for a light read during my work commute. I'm about 160 pages in and will probably finish the rest tonight.

I'm not sure what I think of it yet. The prose is clean but I'm not invested in the work's thematic overtures.

>>12602529
I've been wanting to check this out. How far in are you, thoughts?

>>12602592
This was the story that sold me on Tanizaki's prose for the rest of my life. I haven't read the translation but I hope it does the work justice.

At first didn't fully recognize the translated title but later on I realized why they chose it after a little thinking. The Japanese title is a wonderfully subtle phrase adopted from classical poetry that really suits the heart of the novel, but at the same time it's one of those things that gets lost in translation.