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Madness, murder and obsession: a stylishly original and fantastical collection of stories from an iconic Japanese writer A collection of the 7 essential Akutagawa short stories, in a vivid and elegant translation - the perfect introduction to this master of prose "A born short-story writer. . . one never tires of reading and re-reading his best works" - Haruki Murukami From a nobleman's court, to the garden of paradise, to a lantern festival i...

A collectible hardcover edition of the best stories by the father of the Japanese short story—including the two that inspired Kurosawa's classic samurai film about the subjectivity of truth—featuring an introduction by Haruki MurakamiA Penguin Vitae EditionRyūnosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humor. "Rashōmon" and "In a B...

The Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval-shaped saucer on top of its head, which hardens with age. Akutagawa's Kappa is narrated by Patient No. 23, a madman in a lunatic asylum: he recounts how, while out hiking in Kamikochi, he spots a Kappa. He decides to chase it and, li...

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully...

Deftly translated by Ryan Choi, these stories and vignettes (plus two short plays) all have radical brevity in common, demonstrating that Akutagawa was an early and prescient master of what we now call "flash" fiction and non-fiction. With a striking economy of means, the author gives us vivid, eccentric, feeling characters, young and elderly, learned and unpolished, urban and rural. Akutagawa's observations and notes â€" on dreams, on being i...

Akutagawa Ryunosuke wurde am 1. März 1892 in Tokyo geboren. 1916 beendete er ein Studium der Anglistik an der Universität Tokyo, anschließend unterrichtete er englische Sprache am Kolleg der Marine in Yokosuka südlich von Tokyo und war Mitarbeiter der Tageszeitung 'Osaka mainichi shinbun'. In seiner kurzen Schaffensperiode zwischen 1912 und 1927 bediente er sich einer Vielzahl literarischer Stilmittel und schuf Erzählungen, Bühnenstücke, Drehb...

Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Akutagawa's disturbing tale of seven people recounts the same incident from shockingly different perspectives.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,...

One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' - Haruki Murakami

This anthology collects original writing and art by novelists, poets, and academics about their pets, including a killer chihuahua, a catatonic toy poodle, a contraband cat, a backyard full of endangered desert tortoises, five forgotten parakeets, and a skinny ex-racehorse named Joe. From legends like Ann Beattie and Christine Schutt to indie lit cult figures like Scott McClanahan, this anthology collects writing from some of today's best lite...

10 Selected Short Stories by Akutagawa RyunosukeLarge Print with Japanese languageGood for Japanese Learners & Fans !

Il naso". Un monaco non dovrebbe sapere cos'è la vanità, giusto? Beh, il protagonista di questo racconto la pensa diversamente. Il desiderio di rimpicciolire il suo grosso naso, ma veramente grosso, lo porta a situazioni imbarazzanti! "I cani e il flauto". Immaginate di avere a disposizione tre desideri: che cosa vorreste? Un taglialegna, l'eroe del nostro racconto, ha chiesto tre cani. Come dite "Tutto qua?" Aspettate a giudicarlo, dopotutto ...

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2018 Reprint of 1952 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Whether his fictions are set in centuries past or those close to the present, Akutagawa was a modernist, writing in polished, superbly nuanced prose subtly exposing human needs and flaws. These six stories...

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«La prima qualità della scrittura di Akutagawa Ryunosuke è lo stile, l'uso squisito della lingua giapponese. Non ci si stanca mai di leggere e rileggere le sue opere». (Murakami Haruki). Pochi autori hanno saputo rappresentare, come Akutagawa, lo spirito e la mentalità del popolo giapponese. Capace di fondere, nei suoi primi racconti, temi tradizionali e inquietudini moderniste, in seguito Akutagawa si è rivolto alla propria vita per trarne il...

Akutagawa is acknowledged to be the "father of the Japanese short story." This book is an excellent introduction to Akutagawa's short stories, which number over 100. Fans of the classic Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon will be interested in reading the stories that provided Kurosawa with inspiration for the film. The book includes a new Foreword by noted Akutagawa scholar Seiji Lippit. The Introduction to the original edition by Howard Hibbett is ...

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