Very good book to read

[Doga Seven48]

I have just finished reading (The Key) by Junichiro Tanizaki, and enjyed good time with a feeling that is such story have a part of my life and may be like any other lives of other couples.

It is a book in the form of two diaries, one might almost call them dueling diaries.

One is by the 55 year old man and the other is kept by his wife, age 44.  The long married couple have a strained relationship. The wife says numerous times that she both loves and hates her husband.    She is very frank in her description of how she feelings about the declining physical prowess of her husband and about her growing revulsion toward his aging body. The wife has a very powerful sexual hold over the husband, though his love for her has faded away over the years.   At age 44 she is still very attractive to the husband. Her body is described in detail in the diary of the husband.    Part of the theme of The Key is sexual fetishism, the reduction by men of women to body parts seen apart from a human to which the parts belong.  

 

Such sweet book to read, I am offer to all our friends.