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Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Rashomon tells the chilling story of the killing of a samurai through the testimony of witnesses, including the spirit of the murdered man. The fable-like Yam Gruel is an account of desire and humiliation, but one in which the reader's sympathy is thoroughly unsettled. And in The Martyr, a beloved orphan raised by Jesuit priests is exiled when he refuses to admit that he made a local girl pregnant. He regains their love and respect only at the price of his life. All six tales in the collection show Akutagawa as a master storyteller and an exciting voice of modern Japanese literature.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Rashomon and Other Stories
• Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48
• EAN: 9781987817652
• ISBN: 9781987817652
• ID: 10819258
• Publisher: Stellar Editions
• Weight: 82 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 3 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. March 2016

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