Akutagawa Ryunosuke - Rashomon And Seventeen Other Stories - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Ry nosuke 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. Rash mon 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.
Title: Rashomon And Seventeen Other Stories
Author(s): Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780140449709
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/3/2009
Category: Classic Fiction