The bridge of dreams and other stories reflects the journey of Tanizaki's work, written for half a century, marked by the search for the ideal of feminine beauty and eroticism, which alternates and combines Westernized worlds, populated by fatal femmes, with the delicate beauty of the past.
Thus, we find stories set in other eras, such as that of the tattooist obsessed with decorating the body of the perfect woman, and contemporary stories such as that of a man terrorized by trains, the study of the emotions of a student thief, a man exhausted by the whims of his young lover or a boy obsessed by the memory of his dead mother and the beauty of the woman his father has sought to replace her. The latter will be the plot of the story that gives title to our book, "The Bridge of Dreams", taken from the last chapter of the novel summit of Japanese literature, the Gengi Monogatari, and...read more
