Other Voices, Other Aspects : Junichiro Tanizaki's Ashikari

Abstract

Ashikari has been read as a self-sufficient work, but it is a text capable of a more multivalent reading. This essay will discuss it in several different instances - author, narrator, characters, narration, story, and discoures - and then grasp the whole body of this complex text which unifies and transcends each narrative aspect. By so doing, I would like to suggest some new way of reading after narratology and psychoanalytical reading.