Three Japanese Short Stories

von Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Chiyo Uno, Kafu Nagai

64 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

• Reihe: Penguin Modern
• Themen: Belletristik Besonderheiten Kurzgeschichten
• ISBN: 9780241339749
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.02.2018
• Größe: 164 x 116 mm
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd