What makes it so good in your opinion, anon? I was thinking of reading it at some point, so no spoilers.

>>25107099
>A true novel
The proses…flow!

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>>25107112
It's holistic depiction of people living in place in certain point of time just like the great novels of 19th century. The uniqueness of Makioka Sisters stems from focus on upper-class japanese women in interwar Japan. The setting itself is interesting and unusual for western reader, but the way it's approached is where lot of the magic comes from - it's very detailed, yet tender and yet not 'too much' (it's not written by Hugo). Just enough to make you feel like you are right there and then, no other book does it like this.
Another reason why the book is magical is becouse of it's central theme that 'all things must pass, enjoy the moment'. This theme is all throughout the book...
A novel in 19th century sense is 'holistic depiction of people living in place in certain point of time' - Makioka Sisters is about the world and the time passing and that you have to enjoy it (that's why the descriptions and the setting is so important to it). But Makioka Sisters is not 19th century novel, it's from 1940s and it's modernist - the 'holistic depiction of people living in place in certain point of time' is colored by the main character, the things the narrator focuses on, the way he talks (etc.) makes you feel like it is just how upper-class interwar 30yo japanese woman was. There's this taste of mixture between past and present, tradition and modernity, man and woman and so on. This for me is reason why I prefer it over Anna Karenina.

>>25107179
my nigga hugo catching strays

>>25107099
The greatest closing sentence I've read so far.

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Tanizaki is a boss

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>>25107294
The ending was very reminiscent of certain Hemingway novel...

You now realise that all these 20s authors will go complete Tenko and end up Shinto fascists in love with battleships.

>>25107099
The tomboy SLUT sister was my favorite. Who was yours, bros?

>>25107359
t. doesn’t know anything about tanizaki

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>>25107099
>This is just sublime. Beautiful, funny, but also harrowing and thrilling
This is the final line of this 'sublime' piece of 'art' btw.

>>25108734
Don't spoil it, you fucking retard.

>>25107359
I haven’t read it in a while but iirc it is mildly critical of the war in Manchuria. The suitor of one girl happily tells them he has a new job lined up in Manchuria and it is written in an ironic way as if he doesn’t realize the horror in store.

>>25107361
I loved them all (well all of the main three). Very lovable characters, yet very faulty humans and the books loves to remind you of that, like when it says that it is firt time that mid-30s Saeko has touched a bucket in her life during the air raid practice. Funny, yet shows the coming of WW2 and the times of Makioka sisters coming to an end.

>>25107099
I loved it as well, it was really interesting. I can't really seem to explain why i liked it so much. I've read three Tanizaki books so far and I've enjoyed them all, but this was my favorite.
Anyone care to recommend any more like it?

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>>25108734
Well. Well, well. Well, well, well!

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>>25108783
what is the book about when someone shitting herself is a spoiler?

>>25107099
You're pretentious.

>>25110517
Anna Karenina is the only one I can think of, maybe Convenience Store Woman.

>>25110517
Some Prefer Nettles and Naomi were both really good if you haven't read those ones. Naomi was really funny.

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>>25113492
Thank you both for the suggestions. Just ordered both Anna Karenina and Some Prefer Nettles.

>>25113492
I have read Naomi. I loved it as well.

>>25107099
The youngest sister deserved better. Through the whole novel she kept going through serious problems and the family would treat her like a nuisance, while Yukiko would get diarrhea and everyone would treat it as an existential crisis and would move land and sea to help her. Very unequal treatment.