The Key
Author: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Desc: 'This year I intend to begin writing freely about a topic which in the past I have hesitated to mention even here. I have always avoided commenting on my sexual relations with Ikuko for fear that she might surreptitiously read my diary and be offended-'So begins The Key - a forthright and moving tale of a middle-aged man deeply in love with his younger wife. In spite of that love they have grown physically apart each unsure of the other's thoughts and desires-until the day Ikuko discovers the key to her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. The key she realises to his very soul-