Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Haruki Murakami (Introduction by), Jay Rubin (Translator)Series:Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2009-03-03Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780140449709ISBN-10:140449701UPC:9780140449709Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Classics, LiterarySize:7.76 x 5.12 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SC8V95193T
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
For fans of Shōgun The best stories by the father of the Japanese short story--including the two that inspired Kurosawa's classic samurai film about the subjectivity of truth--featuring an introduction by Haruki Murakami Ryünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists--a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour....
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780140449709ISBN-10:140449701UPC:9780140449709Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Classics, LiterarySize:7.76 x 5.12 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SC8V95193T
Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927), short-story writer, poet, and essayist, one of the first Japanese modernists translated into English. He was born in Tokyo in 1892, and began writing for student publications at the age of ten. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1916 with an English Literature degree and worked as a teacher before becoming a full time writer in 1919. His mother had gone mad...
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