Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin (Translator)

Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin (Translator)These purple sparks he would trade his life for the chance to hold them in his handsAkutagawa (1892 1927) was one of Japan's foremost stylists a modernist master whose stories are marked by original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. Rashmon and In a Bamboo Grove inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is inverted, while tales such as the Nose and Loyalty paint a richly imaginative picture of medieval Japan

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