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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists-a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humor. "Rashōmon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" inspired Akira 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. 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.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Title : 9780143137887

ISBN : 9780143137887

Publisher : Penguin Classics US

Pages : 336

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Pub date : Nov 14, 2023, 08:00 AM

C m s pub date : Jan 9, 2024, 08:00 AM

Length : 199

Width : 130

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