Translated to Arabic, «Fūten rōjin nikki 瘋癲老人日記 » (Diary of a Mad Old Man, 1961), a novel by Japanese author Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965). The story is of a 77 year old man partially paralyzed from a stroke...although impotent he is erotically obsessed with his daughter-in-law's lower legs, and plains to have her footprints carved upon his tomb when he dies.