Le domestiche
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Le domestiche, romanzo rimasto a lungo inedito in Occidente, è un autentico capolavoro narrativo. Ideale seguito di Neve sottile, perché ambientato nella stessa casa e nello stesso periodo, ne ribalta però completamente il punto di vista: qui il racconto passa attraverso la vita delle tante ragazze che nel corso degli anni hanno prestato servizio – prima, durante e dopo la Seconda guerra mondiale – presso la dimora dello scrittore Chikura Raikichi. Nonostante sia benestante, Raikichi ha una casa piccola: le domestiche condividono una stanzetta accanto alla cucina e vivono a stretto contatto con i padroni, ma proprio questo consente al capofamiglia di osservarle molto da vicino nella vita quotidiana. Lo zelo, l’entusiasmo dello scrittore nel descrivere i corpi delle giovani cameriere – le loro gambe, i piedi, la pelle liscia e diafana – rivelano un interesse permeato da una forte carica erotica. La figura del sensuale, e insieme ingenuo, Raikichi è al contempo un autoritratto ironico dell’autore e il centro di una storia commovente e ricca di sfumature sul cambiamento e la perdita. I vecchi valori e le tradizioni di inizio secolo stanno svanendo: assistiamo in queste pagine – nell’evanescente bellezza dei piccoli gesti e delle intricate relazioni – al tramonto di un intero mondo, che sarà travolto dalla marea di una nuova epoca. Con una scrittura vivida e cesellata, Tanizaki crea un’epopea grandiosa e trascinante all’interno di un universo squisitamente domestico.
- ISBN: 8823520827
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 288
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Junichiro Tanizaki's last novel was The Maids (posthumously published in Japanese in 1974, but has just been published in English in 2017). It can be seen as a companion piece to his greatest triumph, The Makioka Sisters. It is the keenly observed lives of several maids who worked for a well-off aut Leggi tutto
Junichiro Tanizaki’s The Makioka Sisters is considered the greatest Japanese novel and is a favorite of mine. It’s about the familial and marital dilemmas of four sisters in an upper-class family, and in it, their maids are merely shadows. In Tanizaki’s final novel, The Maids, originally published i Leggi tutto
This is a fascinating book for those with a strong interest in Japan (1930s to 1960s) and for those with an interest in Kyoto in particular. I enjoyed the writing style and structure, which is more complex than it at first appears. The book provides intriguing glimpses of attitudes toward class diff Leggi tutto
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It would hardly be radical (may in fact be totally lame, not stopping me) to suggest that the core of the Japanese spirit may be found in the haiku: the concision, the restive quality, the foregrounding of the natural, the concern with the seasonal suggesting pattern at the heart of time's ineluctab Leggi tutto
« The Maids » is for you, if you’re eager to learn about 1930-1960´s Japan and it can be seen as a companion piece to his other novel, The Makioka Sisters. Tanizaki very keenly writes about the the lives of the young maids that do service for Chikuras family in Kyoto and obsessively observes the det Leggi tutto
Pointless book :( I just couldn't get into it or even follow a storyline
This book wasn't exactly what I thought it would be. That doesn't mean that it was bad, quite the contrary. However, Tanizaki's vision was clearly different than mine. When I picked this book up, I envisioned that it would be about a group of maids and their dealings with the family they served. This Leggi tutto
A weird little gem. There's not much of a storyline in any traditional sense of the word, nor a strict chronological order. It's like an old man reminiscing about the past, about places that have been, people that have gone and the ever changing world that they all live in. Tanizaki writes all this w Leggi tutto
In the Chikura family household, maids come and go. Only the special few provide the family with lasting impressions, for better or worse. So goes the theme in Junichiro Tanizaki's novel "The Maids". Published as his final novel, "The Maids" is a well written book with nicely detailed cultural refere Leggi tutto
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