Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Price: 419 Kč
Price for Eshop: 377 Kč (€ 14.5)
VAT 10% included
New
English
In stock, ships in 24 hours
U Lužického semináře 10, Malá Strana
Book information
Penguin Books Ltd
UK
2009
TRA
Paperback
320
Standard
245191
978-0-14-044970-9
0-14-044970-1
Annotation
Ryunosuke 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. "Rashomon" 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.
Ask question
You can ask us about this book and we'll send an answer to your e-mail.
Write new comment