The Makioka Sisters humour Mit Textbeiträgen von Christoph Bignens

Mit Textbeiträgen von Christoph Bignens

die sie auf den Spuren berühmter Schriftsteller unternommen hat

and Europe

the curator presents his personal curatorial alphabet with a similar transparency and the same idiosyncratic character revealed in many of his exhibitions

The Makioka Sisters humour Mit Textbeiträgen von Christoph BignensTanizakis masterpiece is the story of the extinction of a great family through pride and over refinement. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. moreWith surgical realism and precision, Tanizaki lays bare the sinews of pride, and in the finest qualities of the Japanese tradition, brings a vanished era to vibrant life.