num_pages: 368
description: These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all.In The Key, a middle-aged professor plies his wife of thirty years with any number of stimulants, from brandy to a handsome young lover, in order to reach new heights of pleasure. Their alternating diaries record their separate adventures, but whether for themselvess or each other becomes the question. Diary of a Mad Old Man records, with alternating humor and sadness, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi’s discovery that even his stroke-ravaged body still contains a raging libido, especially in the unwitting presence of his chic, mysterious daughter-in-law.
language: English
title: The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man
titlecomplete: The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man
genres: Asia, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Japanese Literature, Novels, Asian Literature, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Japan
ratings_count: 468
publisher: Vintage