- Published: 27 April 2006
- ISBN: 9780140449709
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $22.99
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
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A unique new selection, bringing together Akutagawa's undisputed masterpieces and several less well known tales, never before translated into English.
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. 'Rashömon' 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.
- Published: 27 April 2006
- ISBN: 9780140449709
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $22.99