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RASHOMON AND SEVENTEEN OTHER STORIES
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| By: |
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Trans) |
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| ISBN 10: |
0143039849 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780143039846 |
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| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2006 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Translated from: |
Japanese |
| Description: |
Ryunosuke 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. This work features stories such as "Rashomon", "In a Bamboo Grove", "The Nose", "O-Gin", "Loyalty", "Death Register", "The Life of a Stupid Man" and "Spinning Gears". |
| Synopsis: |
Ryunosuke 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. `Rashomon' 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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UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Classics |
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