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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.

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

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    A Paperback / softback by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 05/04/2007
      ISBN13: 9780143039846, 978-0143039846
      ISBN10: 0143039849
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      Anthologies & Short Stories Contemporary Fiction

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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