Ryūnosuke Akutagawa | Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
- Stories and editorial material copyright © Jay Rubin, 2006
Introduction copyright © Haruki Murakami, 2006
Ryūnosuke 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. "Rashōmon"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.- Language: English
- Dimensions: 13 х 20 cm
- Pages: 268
- Cover: softcover
- First published: 2006
- This edition published: 2006