Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

von Ryunosuke Akutagawa

320 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Belletristik Besonderheiten Kurzgeschichten
• ISBN: 9780143039846
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.04.2007
• Größe: 212 x 143 mm
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Übersetzung: Jay Rubin