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Title	:	Naomi
Author	:	Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 237 pages
Published	:	April 10th 2001 by Vintage (first published 1924)
Categories	:	Cultural. Japan. Fiction. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Classics. Literature

Naomi

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Paperback | Pages: 237 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 4669 Users | 412 Reviews

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Junichiro Tanizaki’s Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion.   When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.

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Original Title:	痴人の愛 [Chijin no Ai]
ISBN:	0375724745 (ISBN13: 9780375724749)
Edition Language:	English

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Not without its charms, this is the deflating story of a sad-sack fellow who takes a 15-year old "Westernish"-looking Japanese girl under his wing, cultivates her into ambiguously Westernizing Japanese culture of the 1920s-30s, marries her, and then watches helplessly as she screws pretty much everyone she meets."Naomi" is curious and not a little infuriating, which is part of the fun. The narrator, obviously an idiot who knows it well, is so obsessed with his "Eurasian" plaything that he is

Naomi, Naomi I dont know how many times the name was repeated between us. It was the appetizer that accompanied our sake. We relished its smooth sound, licked it with our saliva, and raised it to our lips, as though it were a delicacy even tastier than beef.It is almost impossible in modern times to talk about Junichiro Tanizakis Naomi without mentioning Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita; even if Naomi was written half a century before Lolita. The above quote could easily be a passage in Nabokovs

Naomi is Junichiro Tanizakis stunningly evocative work exhibiting a mans romantic-erotic obsession with his unfaithful wife. I wanted to boast to everyone, This woman is mine. Take a look at my treasure. This is a tale of agony, emotionally and sexually. Joji, a successful professional almost in his thirties, is bewitched by a modest and innocent eurasian waitress of fifteen so much so that the he propositions her and takes her guardianship as his own. Initially unsure of what he wanted, they

Nothing spectacular, but I enjoyed the story. I really liked the writing, but I didn't like the characters. They were complex, but I don't think as a reader I was suppose to like them. I would say this was almost like the Japanese version of Lolita, but less disturbing. At times this reminded me of Osamu Tezuka's Ayako as well. A lot of this book as to to do with Westernization in Japan as well. I don't know much about Junichiro Tanizaki to talk more about the book, but found out about him

Joji is a 28-year-old salaryman, a former country gentleman now in Tokyo, who becomes smitten with a 15-year-old "Eurasian"-looking cafe waitress, Naomi, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks whose neglectful parents seem to be involved in shady dealings. Her "western" features draw him. As it happens -- and like a lot of their contemporaries in 1920s urban Japan -- the two find themselves under the spell of western cultural influences; the clothes, the movies, the products and the mores and

Scandalous and delightful to read. Really enjoying Tanizakis prose

Whoever said that strong female characters were not a concept in older pieces of literature needs to read this book. Naomi is a fantastic novel that shows manipulation to its full extent. It infuriates you as the reader but you also can't help but be in awe at the magnitude that makes up this character. What the real teaser is that you never see anything from Naomi's pov. So what is this novel about? What is Tanizaki trying to say? Beats me. I have a few theories but these are based on my own