The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man

These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all.<br><br>In <b>The Key</b><i> </i>a middle-aged professor plies his wife of thirty years with any number of stimulants from brandy to a handsome young lover in order to reach new heights of pleasure. Their alternating diaries record their separate adventures but whether for themselves&#160;or each other becomes the question. <b>Diary of a Mad Old Man</b> records with alternating humor and sadness seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi&#146;s discovery that even his stroke-ravaged body still contains a raging libido especially in the unwitting presence of his chic mysterious daughter-in-law.