Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Translated by Jay Rubin; Introduction by Haruki Murakami
Hardcover
November 14, 2023 | ISBN 9780143137887
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October 31, 2006 | ISBN 9780143039846
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October 31, 2006 | ISBN 9781101503096
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About the Book
A Penguin Vitae Edition
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. 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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