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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
Murakami, Haruki
Rubin, Jay

Hardcover

Series: Penguin Vitae

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 0143137883
ISBN13: 9780143137887
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Nov 14 2023
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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 Murakami

A Penguin Vitae Edition

Ryūnosuke 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 Bamboo Grove inspired Akira Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as The Nose, O-Gin and Loyalty paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as Death Register, The Life of a Stupid Man, and Spinning Gears, Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.

Penguin Vitae--loosely translated as Penguin of one's life--is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.

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