Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

Released on 2006 by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

Author: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Publisher: Penguin Classics

ISBN: 0143039849

Category: Fiction

Page: 268

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This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories with an introduction by Haruki Murakami. Akutagawa's disturbing tales of human passion capture the cultural upheaval of early twentieth century Japan, ranging from ?In the Grove,” the basis of Kurosawa's famous film Rashomon, to Akutagawa's later, more autobiographical writings.

Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Language: en
Pages: 268

Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

Authors: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Penguin Classics

This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories with an introduction by Haruki Murakami. Akutagawa's disturbing tales of human passion capture the cultural upheaval of early twentieth century Japan, ranging from ?In the Grove,” the basis of Kurosawa's famous film Rashomon, to Akutagawa's later, more autobiographical
Rashomon and Other Stories
Language: en
Pages: 128

Rashomon and Other Stories

Authors: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-11 - Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

"Clear-eyed glimpses of human behavior in the extremities of poverty, stupidity, greed, vanity… Story-telling of an unconventional sort, with most of the substance beneath the shining, enameled surface." —The New York Times Book Review Widely acknowledged as "the father of the Japanese short story," Ryunosuke Akutagawa remains one of the
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Language: en
Pages: 320

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Authors: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-05 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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
Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L
Language: en
Pages: 1714

Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L

Authors: O. Classe, [Anonymus AC02468681]
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Includes articles about translations of the works of specific authors and also more general topics pertaining to literary translation.
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Language: en
Pages: 118

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