Description: Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories, Hardcover by Akutagawa, Ryunosuke; Rubin, Jay (TRN); Murakami, Haruki (INT), ISBN 0143137883, ISBN-13 9780143137887, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Ryåunosuke 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. 'Rashåomon' 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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Original Language: Japanese
Book Title: Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: Classics, Short Stories (Single Author), Linguistics / General
Genre: Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Weight: 14.3 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Book Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Hardcover
