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Ryunosuke 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.

"Rashomon" 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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
• Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780140449709
• ISBN: 0140449701
• ID: 04024612
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 240 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 129 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. March 2006

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