Rashomon and Other Stories (Tuttle classics) - Softcover

Akutagawa, Ryunosuke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804814570 ISBN 13: 9780804814577

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

Before his tragic death in 1927, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, author of "Rashomon", one of the most renowned stories of Japanese literature, wrote more than 100 short stories. Since his death, he has been described as one of the best-read men of his generation.Included in this timeless collection are Akutagawa's "In a Grove", a psychologically sophisticated tale about murder, rape, and suicide; "The Martyr", the story of silent suffering in Christian Nagasaki; and "Kesa and Morito", the story of man driven to kill someone he doesn't hate by a lover whom he doesn't love; and "Rashomon", the infamous story of a thief scared into honesty by a terrifying encounter with a ghoul. "What [Akutagawa] 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".

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"Because I was a Japanese major in college, a very nice edition of a translation of Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa had been left for me at my bedside, to read while I was there and to take with me when I left. Thoughtful, I thought. And fitting. Even more fitting, that friend and I no longer speak, and I am sure we have very different versions as to why that is." --The New York Times Book Review

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A Liveright book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0804814570
• ISBN 13: 9780804814577
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 104