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Title	:	Naomi
Author	:	Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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This was my first Tanizaki book, and what a great start! I had high expectations, and this definitely delivered! This made me feel a whole palette of emotions, and that in itself is a wonderful achievement!

Naomi is a character so controversial that she spawned a social movement in Japan: Naomi-ism. She represented a sea change in the state of Japanese womanhood, a shift from timidness to temerity, a strong pull toward Western mores and fashions.However, for all her archetypal significance, Naomi is not likable. Neither, for that matter, is Jōji. They are the unfortunate byproducts of a society of split cultural allegiances--some clinging to traditional Japanese expectations and others siphoning



1 foolish starWhat the hell did I just read??No. Why the hell did I even bother to read this book at all???!!!God seriously I hated everything about this book!This book was exactly like what the original title said痴人の愛 or often translated as 'A Fool's Love'.Jōji was a lunatic masochist. I don't understand what the hell did he see on Naomi.He would just do anything Naomi asked for, although she really was so lazy, useless, ungrateful bitch.Naomi was an ungrateful, shameless, useless, selfish,

I think this is one of my favourite novels about the nature of "true love"... I think Tanizaki might have been my kind of person in this respect, a person who was willing to entertain the possibility that there is no such thing as "love" beyond how people rationalize manipulation in their relationships.

Naomi works much better as an allegory about the changes that Japan was facing after WWI and their obsession with all things western and youth-oriented, than it does as a tale of obsessive love (lust, really) between Joji and Naomi, who is thirteen years Joji's junior.As noted, when read as an allegory, it is interesting to see the interplay and tension between old-school, reserved, "older" Japan and the new movement towards Western influences in dress, music, movies, and attitudes. Traditional

On one level it's a story of a slightly older man in love with a young girl. But being Tanizaki, it is also about old Japan in love with the modern (early 20th Century) world. Either way this book has it all: eroticism, obsession, and smart as well.