Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780140449709
- author:
- Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2006
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 13 x 1.9 x 19.8 centimetres (0.2
- Genre:
- Classic fiction
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short stories are a masterclass in modernist storytelling, marked by original imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. In "Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories", Akutagawa's unique style is on full display, exploring the subjective nature of truth and morality in medieval Japan. From the infamous "Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove", to tales like "The Nose" and "O-Gin", Akutagawa's stories paint a rich and imaginative picture of a Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. Later works, such as "Death Register" and "The Life of a Stupid Man", reveal Akutagawa's intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.
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