Citations

“The quality that we call beauty...must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows towards beauty's ends.”
In Praise of Shadows, P. 18En anglais
“Such is our way of thinking — we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
In Praise of Shadows, P. 30En anglais
“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”
In Praise of Shadows, P. 30En anglais
“There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that our streets will again be quiet, but I know perfectly well that when that day comes some new device for torturing the old will be invented.”
In Praise of Shadows, P. 41En anglais

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Les livres de Jun'ichirō Tanizaki dans l'ordre

Les livres de Jun'ichirō Tanizaki dans l'ordre de parution, de Le goût des orties (1929) à Devils in Daylight (2017).