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Eroticism in The Key : Embodiment of Sex

Creator	Creator Name 吉, 美顯 Gil, Mi Hyun Affiliation Affiliation Name 日本学術振興会 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Language	Japanese
Publisher	九州大学大学院比較社会文化学府比較文化研究会
Publisher	Society of Comparative Culｔural Studies, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University
Date	2005-07-20
Source Title	Comparatio
Vol	9
First Page	58
Last Page	65
Publication Type	Version of Record
Access Rights	open access
JaLC DOI	https://doi.org/10.15017/16044
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Abstract	The Key is composed of diaries as a device of communication for an elderly married couple. Following the protagonist's wish to restore his withering sexual appetite, his wife becomes masochistic, and ...then sadistic. He got transfixed by the beauty of his wife's body developed by himself and eventually dies upon it. Here, his pursue of eroticism ultimately ends in his death, to which his wife leads him according his suggestions. Tanizaki of the Showa period in this way embodies beauty of women, 'the powerful'.show more

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