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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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