秘密

乙女の本棚

by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

人気シリーズ「乙女の本棚」第16弾は谷崎潤一郎×イラストレーター・マツオヒロミのコラボレーション!
小説としても画集としても楽しめる、魅惑の1冊。全イラスト描き下ろし。

私はひそかに鏡台に向って化粧を始めた。
夜な夜な女装をして出歩く「私」は、ある夜、昔の女と再会する。そして彼女との秘密の逢い引きがはじまった。
谷崎潤一郎の『秘密』が、『百貨店ワルツ』などで知られる大人気イラストレーター・マツオヒロミによって、鮮やかに描かれる。
名作文学と現代の美麗なイラストが融合した、珠玉のコラボレーション・シリーズ。
自分の本棚に飾っておきたい。大切なあの人にプレゼントしたい。そんな気持ちになる「乙女の本棚」シリーズの1冊。

96 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1911

About the author

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) was a Japanese author, and one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki.

Some of his works present a rather shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions; others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society.

Frequently his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which constructions of "the West" and "Japanese tradition" are juxtaposed. The results are complex, ironic, demure, and provocative.

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

A crime mystery/detective short stories collection from the 1910s? I'm in.

This short stories collection "Secret" is from the 1910s and I can't say all of the stories have aged well. Many stories and their themes remind me strongly of Edogawa Rampo's crime novels but Rampo's stuff are far more entertaining and full of tricky twists and turns to keep you amused and impressed, which I hadn't found in this collection.

However, I can still very much appreciate what the author had tried to do here, a few stories are pretty outstanding as well especially the story about a boy and his beautiful sister-in-law. Plus it's very possible that Rampo had once been inspired by this author's writing and style too.

Re-reading@20/2024

The rating increases to 3.5 stars.

After the re-reading, I enjoyed this short stories collection a lot more and I cannot help noticing how striking the influence Mr. Tanizaki's crime, mystery, and suspense about crime hidden in board daylight has on Edogawa Rampo's short stories of crime!

Need not to say, I am re-reading this one because I am into the Bungo Stray Dog manga series (Junichiro Tanizaki happens to be one of the characters in this series)! 🤣🤣🤣

[achen · Rating 4 out of 5]

如此狗血的社會新聞題材居然可以寫得既美又妙，真是好看極了（偏愛《秘密》《受詛咒的劇本》《一個少年的恐懼》《途中》）。