Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Akutagawa, Ryunosuke

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140449709)

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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Akutagawa, Ryunosuke

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

$17.00
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Akutagawa, Ryunosuke

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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For fans of Shōgun The best stories by the father of the Japanese short story--including the two that inspired Kurosawa's classic samurai film about the subjectivity of truth--featuring an introduction by Haruki Murakami

Ry?osuke Akutagawa 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on"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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
ISBN-10: 0140449701
ISBN-13: 9780140449709
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2009
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.12w x 0.77d
By Ryunosuke Akutagawa
By Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927), short-story writer, poet, and essayist, one of the first Japanese modernists translated into English. He was born in Tokyo in 1892, and began writing for student publications at the age of ten. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1916 with an English Literature degree and worked as a teacher before becoming a full time writer in 1919. His mother had gone mad suddenly just months after his birth and he was plagued by fear of inherited insanity all his life. He killed himself in 1927.

Haruki Murakami has written eleven novels, eight volumes of short stories and numerous works of non-fiction, as well as translating much American literature into Japanese. His most famous novels are Norwegian Wood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, and Kafka on the Shore.

Jay Rubin has translated several of Murakami's works into English and is also the author of Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words. He has been professor of Japanese Literature at the Universities of Washington and Harvard.

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