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The secret history of the Lord of Musashi : two novellas ;Arrowroot

Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 1886-19652001
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This book contains two short novels, originally published in the 1930s. Musashi deals with the dark obsessions of a 16th-century warlord. Arrowroot also touches on the pursuit of legend, but in a different mode, that of the Japanese form of the essay novel.
Main title:
The secret history of the Lord of Musashi : two novellas ;Arrowroot / by Junichirō Tanizaki / translated by Anthony H. Chambers.
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2001.
Collation:
179p. ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
This translation originally published: New York: Knopf, 1982; London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9780099283171 (pbk)
Dewey class:
FICTION
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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Subject:
BRN:
130068
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