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.'Rashmon'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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780140449709Number of pages: 320Weight: 238 gDimensions: 196 x 130 x 17 mm
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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Japan's best-known novelist abroad and the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction,includingThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,Kafka on the Shore,After Dark,1Q84,What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningandColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
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