Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
byAkutagawa Ryūnosuke, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Akira Kurosawa, agustin leiva, Jay Rubin, 村上春樹, Alejandro lucas matias sanchez alonso, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Leonor arcija, José Kozer, Albert Nolla Cabellos, . mkdeville, Philippe Nicloux
Ryünosuke 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. ‘Rashömon’ 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.
Language
English
Published on
04/05/2007
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780143039846
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