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Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Peace, David

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ISBN10: 052556411X
ISBN13: 9780525564119
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Aug 20 2019
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In these twelve interconnected tales, David Peace--acclaimed author of the Red Riding Quartet, Occupied City, and Tokyo Year Zero--weaves fact and fiction as he takes up the brief but fiercely lived life of the early-twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Unique and offbeat, Patient X delves into Akutagawa's rich and complicated private life: his fears and battles with mental illness; his complex reaction to the Westernization of Japan; his exacting creative process; and his suicide, weaving these facets into a hauntingly evocative portrait. But Patient X is more than a paean to one remarkable writer: it is also an incandescent exploration of the act and obsession of writing itself, and of the role of the artist in times that darkly mirror our own.

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