Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
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Ryünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japans foremost stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. Rashömonand In a Bamboo Grove inspired Kurosawas magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as The Nose, O-Gin and Loyalty paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as Death Register, The Life of a Stupid Man, and Spinning Gears, Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.
Author:
RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA
Cover:
Paperback
Language:
ENG
Number of pages:
320
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
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