This perversion called love

"This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan's most canonical and best translated twentieth century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism. Examining sexual perversion in Tanizaki's aesthetic essays, cultural criticism, cinema writings, and short novels from the 1930s, it argues that Tanizaki understands human subjectivity in remarkably Freudian terms, but that he is much more critical than Freud about what this means for the possibility of love. Author Margherita Long takes readers with her on her personal search for a meaningful feminist approach to Tanizaki's…