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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Paperback / softback | ISBN 9780140449709

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A unique new selection, bringing together Akutagawa's undisputed masterpieces and several less well known tales, never before translated into English.

Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. 'Rash mon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove' inspired Kurosawa's 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.

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Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9780140449709
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages: 320
Width (mm): 129
Height (mm): 198
Depth (mm): 17

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