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Rashomon and other stories ryunosuke akutagawa this collection of short stories includes in a grove, a psychologically sophisticated tale about murder, rape, and suicide. He died by suicide at the age of 35 through an overdose of. The item youve selected was not added to your cart. Akutagawa s work is marked by his profound knowledge of classical and contemporary. Ryunosuke akutagawa was the author of over 100 short stories.
Akutagawa ryunosuke was one of the first prewar japanese writers to achieve a wide foreign readership, partly because of his technical virtuosity, partly because his work seemed to represent imaginative fiction as opposed to the mundane accounts of the inovelists of the time, partly because of his brilliant joining of traditional material to a modern sensibility, and. One of penguin classics most popular translationsnow also in our elegant black spine dress ryunosuke akutagawa is one of japans foremost stylistsa modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. Rashomon and seventeen other stories by ryunosuke akutagawa author haruki murakami author of. Rashomon and other stories download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
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