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Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
ISBN: 9784805308820

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Resumen

This collection of short stories includes "In a Grove", a psychologically sophisticated tale about murder, rape, and suicide; "Rashomon", the story of a thief scared into honesty by an encounter with a ghoul; and "Kesa and Morito", the story of man driven to kill someone he doesn't hate by a lover whom he doesn't love.

"There are enough Swiftian touches in Akutagawa to show his hatred of stupidity, greed, hypocrisy and the rising jingoism of the day. But AkutagawaÆs artistic integrity kept him from joining his contemporaries in the easy social criticism or naive introspection…What he did was question the values of his society, dramatize the complexities of human psychology, and study, with a Zen taste for paradox, the precarious balance of illusion and reality."—Howard Hibbett, from the Introduction of Rashomon and Other Stories

Información de la editorial

Ryunosuke Akutagawa was the author of over 100 short stories. Described as one of the best-read men of his generation, he re degree in English Literature at Tokyo Imperial University and published translations by Anatole France and W. B. Yeats. Two of his short stories from this collection became the basis of the award-winning movie Rashomon by famed director Akira Kurosawa. In 1927, he committed suicide at the age of thirty-five.

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Rashomon-An atmosphere of decadence in early Kyoto. A ghoul at work shocks a would-be thief into something like honesty.

Detalles

Título Rashomon and Other Stories
Autor Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Introduction by Howard Hibbett; Kojima Takashi (Translator)
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Páginas 128
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Tuttle Publishing, Hong Kong
Fecha de publicación 2007-11-15
Features Table of Contents
ISBN 9784805308820 / 4805308826
Peso 0.3 libras (0.14 kg)
Dimensiones 8 x 5.12 x 0.4 pulgadas (20.32 x 13.00 x 1.02 cm)
Nivel de lectura 1030
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Reseñas en medios

"There are enough Swiftian touches in Akutagawa to show his hatred of stupidity, greed, hypocrisy, and the rising jingoism of the day. But Akutagawa's artistic integrity kept him from joining his contemporaries in the easy social criticism or naive introspectionàWhat he did was question the values of his society, dramatize the complexities of human psychology, and study, with a Zen taste for paradox, the balance of illusion and reality."—Howard Hibbett

Acerca del autor

Ryunosuke Akutagawa was the author of over 100 short stories. Described as one of the best-read men of his generation, he received a degree in English Literature from Tokyo Imperial University and published translations by Anatole France and W. B. Yeats. Two of his short stories from this collection became the basis of the award-winning movie Rashomon by famed director Akira Kurosawa. In 1927, he committed suicide at the age of thirty-five.

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