Product Description
Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa - one of Japan's foremost stylists and a modernist master whose short stories are marked by imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. His other works include: "Rashomon"; "In a Bamboo Grove"; "The Nose"; "O-Gin"; "Loyalty"; "Death Register"; "The Life of a Stupid Man"; and "Spinning Gears".
Product Details
Title: | Rashomon And Seventeen Other Stories |
---|---|
Author: | Ryunosuke Akutagawa |
Publisher: | Penguin |
SKU: | BK0481723 |
EAN: | 9780140449709 |
Number Of Pages: | 320 |
Language: | English |
Binding: | Paperback |
Country Of Origin: | India |
Release date: | 30 March 2006 |
About Author
Ryunosuke Akutagawa was a short-story writer, poet and essayist, and one of the first Japanese modernists translated into English. He was born in Tokyo in 1892, and began writing for student publications at the age of ten. He graduated from Tokyo University with an English Literature degree and worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1919. His mother had suffered a mental breakdown shortly after his birth and he was plagued by fear of inherited insanity all his life. He killed himself in 1927.