{"id":110872,"date":"2017-05-15T12:23:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=110872"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:43:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:43:13","slug":"junichiro-tanizaki-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/15\/junichiro-tanizaki-the-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Jun\u2019ichiro Tanizaki, <i>The Key<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Matteo Pericoli is the founder of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lablitarch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Laboratory of Literary Architecture<\/a>,\u00a0an interdisciplinary project that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/16\/literary-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\">looks at fiction through the lens of architecture<\/a>,\u00a0designing and building stories\u00a0as architectural projects. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/category\/literary-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\">this series<\/a>, he\u00a0shares some of his designs and what they reveal about the stories\u00a0<\/em><em>they\u2019re modeled on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-110876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1001\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image001.jpg 1142w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image001-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image001-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Jun\u2019ichiro Tanizaki\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Key-Junichiro-Tanizaki\/dp\/0679730230\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Key<\/em><\/a>, a man writes in his diary about the sexual fantasies he has been having about his wife. Hoping she\u2019ll read it, he locks it in a drawer and leaves the key on the floor. As soon as his wife sees the key, she understands her husband\u2019s intentions and begins, in turn, to keep her own diary. Knowing that he, too, will read it, she writes to deliberately mislead him, claiming that she hasn\u2019t read\u2014will never read\u2014his diary. A perfect dovetail.<\/p>\n<p>The two spouses\u2019 souls, sharing both a space and a life, never meet nor try to know each other. They intersect without ever touching. The diaries are only apparently filled with secrets and truths, as each word is carefully chosen, keeping in mind the spying partner. The reader has access only to the diaries\u2014everything is presented to us clearly and chronologically, starting with the entry in which, on New Year\u2019s Day, the husband writes: \u201cThis year I intend to begin writing freely about a topic which, in the past, I have hesitated even to mention here.\u201d\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-110875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1001\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image002.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image002-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image002-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image002-1024x553.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We go back and forth between two spaces that are as intersected and connected as they are distant and irreconcilable, caught in between, never fully engaged in either. We learn all sorts of things, but at the same time, we don\u2019t know what\u2019s <em>really<\/em> happening. The structure is only apparently whole and homogenous\u2014yet on a closer look it comprises two buildings made of huge fin walls whose cantilevering floor slabs slide into the other\u2019s like the pages of two books.<\/p>\n<p>The floors of the \u201cdouble\u201d building therefore alternate, as though one of the buildings has even-numbered floors and the other only odd. To go from one level to the next\u2014say, from the fifth to the sixth floor\u2014we\u2019d have to go downstairs, exit one building, enter the other, and go back upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a huge effort, and a meaningless one: occupying the same physical space, engaging with each other, and seeing the next level within reach but having no way to get there other than by leaving and reentering the building. We might as well stay where we are, in one of the two buildings, distancing ourselves definitively from the other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-110874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"997\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image003.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image003-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image003-768x682.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">In collaboration with Giuseppe Franco.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matteo Pericoli\u2019s Literary Architecture series reimagines 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