New Directions Publishing Corporation
The Maids , Tanizaki's final novel, sparkles like a jewel.
Over the years--before, during, and after WWII--many women work in the pampered, elegant household of the famous author Chikura Raikichi, his wife, and her younger sister.
Though the family's quite well-to-do, the house is small; the proximity of the maids helps perhaps to explain Raikichi's extremely close, and somewhat eroticized, observation of all their little ways.
In the sensualist patrician Raikichi, Tanizaki offers a .
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