Volume 32, Number 18 · November 21, 1985
Irresistible Demons
By Brad Leithauser
Naomi
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Anthony H. Chambers
Knopf, 237 pp., $15.95
Although a brief, uncluttered, and happily accessible novel, Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi arrives from somewhat tangled origins. A reader making Tanizaki's acquaintance through this book—and there's probably no better gateway into the dense, haunting world of this man who may have been Japan's finest modern novelist—might well keep these in mind as a sort of warning. For Naomi's plot, too, comes with hidden complexities.
Review, 3965 words
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