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A review by syalinna
Naomi by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
1.0
Dnf-ing this book after reading it for 100 pages. I also skimmed the next chapters and could see that the narration got even worse.
Basically what I read so far:
- The main character is a 28 year old man and he's attracted to a 15 year old girl.
- He's attracted to this girl bcs she looks "western" and has a face very similar to his favorite actress.
- He plans to "nurture" and "teach" her in order to make her as his ideal wife.
- He insists that he doesn't do anything "defiling" to her, yet he keeps describing her body in so much detail and dressing her up like a doll.
- He eventually marries her and keeps building this "western" persona of her, so he asks her to study English & music, something that he sees as "western".
- The girl is having a hard time understanding English, bes she also never attended any school before.
- The man got angry and start calling her 'stupid' and all kind of things, even tho he himself can't speak English very well.
- The man threatens to kick her out of the house if she doesn't apologize to him, because she is wrong for not trying hard enough to be a "respectable woman".
- The girl apologized, but he describes her as unapologetic and manipulative.
- He brings the story of Cleopatra, in which he sees Cleopatra wickedly seduces men with her charm. He says that the girl is using the same evil tactic on him. - (Keep in mind that all of this happened to a 15 year old girl)
- And of course throughout the narration, he always insists that he is a virtuous man.
Any decent human being could see how disgusting the main character is. I lost all my respect to the author for writing such a loathsome narration.
Basically what I read so far:
- The main character is a 28 year old man and he's attracted to a 15 year old girl.
- He's attracted to this girl bcs she looks "western" and has a face very similar to his favorite actress.
- He plans to "nurture" and "teach" her in order to make her as his ideal wife.
- He insists that he doesn't do anything "defiling" to her, yet he keeps describing her body in so much detail and dressing her up like a doll.
- He eventually marries her and keeps building this "western" persona of her, so he asks her to study English & music, something that he sees as "western".
- The girl is having a hard time understanding English, bes she also never attended any school before.
- The man got angry and start calling her 'stupid' and all kind of things, even tho he himself can't speak English very well.
- The man threatens to kick her out of the house if she doesn't apologize to him, because she is wrong for not trying hard enough to be a "respectable woman".
- The girl apologized, but he describes her as unapologetic and manipulative.
- He brings the story of Cleopatra, in which he sees Cleopatra wickedly seduces men with her charm. He says that the girl is using the same evil tactic on him. - (Keep in mind that all of this happened to a 15 year old girl)
- And of course throughout the narration, he always insists that he is a virtuous man.
Any decent human being could see how disgusting the main character is. I lost all my respect to the author for writing such a loathsome narration.