Key. The diary of the crazy old man. Tanidzaki Dzyunyitiro

Tanizaki Dzyuniitiro (1886-1965) is one of the most outstanding Japanese writers of the 20th century, who received worldwide recognition.

Among his many works are the most famous two novels - “Key” and “Diary of a Mad Old Man”.

The publication of the “Key” in 1956 caused a violent public reaction up to the debate in the Japanese parliament on the prohibition of the novel as immoral and pornographic.

The same scandal also caused the appearance in just three years to the death of the author of the “Diary of a Mad Old Man.”

both of these works amaze with their vital strength, frank eroticism and fearlessness in the descriptions of the most subtle, most intimate human relations. literary allusions, a brave experimenter, never afraid, and often sought to shock the venerable reader, converted banal stories into a parable about a person’s indestructible desire for a fullness of life and the impossibility of reconciling with old age and death.