Cover of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Haruki Murakami (INT), Jay Rubin (TRN): Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Haruki Murakami (INT), Jay Rubin (TRN) Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

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Penguin Books Ltd

UK

2009

TRA

Paperback

320

Standard

245191

978-0-14-044970-9

0-14-044970-1

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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.

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