In this new, Tanizaki describes a closed session between a son and his father and two successive wives with the same first name, resembling nothing so much and having Tadasu with the son, a relationship that holds motherhood and carnal (without incest) .Tanizaki Master treats the theme of the double, the Desir and villainy. At the border of this triangle suffocating in a closed landscape, beautiful descriptive finesse, a nourrisc, sort of Hérault of Doom and the wife of Tanizaki Tadasu which hints the cunning character, cunning, devious.
Tanizaki, this great writer who is somewhere between Flaubert Choderlos de Laclos and Sophocles.