Inagaki Taruho; One Thousand and One-Second Stories

Translated from the Japanese with an Introduction by Tricia Vita

Series No.: SMC 139

ISBN: 978-1557133618, Pages: 163

Japanese Literature, Fiction

A Sun & Moon title.

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"Taruho is one of the few I can call a genius in Japanese literature.... He has a spot equivalent to the astronauts in history. There is Before Taruho & After Taruho."

--Yukio Mishima

Dubbed by the Japanese as "the 21st Century's Dandy," Inagaki Taruho writes short and incredibly concentrated stories of his favorite things: machines, airplanes, modern fairies, Saturn, falling stars, the tin moon, geometrical shapes, boys, policemen, aromatic Turkish cigarettes, black cats who turn into smoke, crashing comets, gay bars, and numerous other subjects which run throughout his tales. Writing from the 1920s to the 1970s, Inagaki is a true original, seen by many Japanese as the equal in talent of Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Yasunari Kawabata, and Yukio Mishima, and as one of the great Japanese writers of the 20th century.

Translator Tricia Vita has brilliantly translated Inagaki's debut masterpiece for the first time into English, and the result is a book destined to charm and amaze Western readers. Also included are selections from Soap Bubble Stories (1923), Tokyo Attractions That Should Be Missed (1925), Five Tales by Taruho (1925), Stories from the Third Hemisphere (1927), and The Collected Poetry of Taruho.