Diary of a Mad Old Man
Junichiro Tanizaki, 1961
瘋癲老人日記
谷崎潤一郎
Read in 2007
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🔽 Summary and quick note 🔽
✔ 77 year old man keeps diary about his admiration of his daughter in law and her feet
✔ Partly paralised elderly man's sexual desire and fetishism
✔ A masterpiece from Tanizaki written a few years before his death
★★★★★ A diary of a grandpa who admires his daughter-in-law and her feet. He's partly paralysed, she's free spirited and happily receives bribes. What he wouldn't do for her and to kiss her feet! A masterpiece from Tanizaki that deals with unique themes; old man's sexual desire and fetishism.
🔽 Book review 🔽
If you don't know Tanizaki's other works, you will be shocked, if you do know his works, it'll make you love it more.
77 year old grandpa is now partly paralised and deeply and sexually in love with his free spirited daughter-in-law and more than anything he adores her feet.
It's written as his diary and it's full of his daily desires and fantasies.
He completely admires Sachiko, who is happily having an affair outside their house, and he bribes his way to kiss her feet.
He is mad, but it doesn't mean he's gone senile, he is totally cold and indifferent towards his own daughters, and he likes his grandchild, it's just that he's at this stage of his life where he couldn't care less, he just wants to admire her feet and would happily die for them.
Tanizaki was 75 years old himself when he wrote it, it is a masterpiece that deals with a unique theme of impotent old man's sexual desire and fetishism.
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🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽
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The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man (Vintage International)
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