Hell Screen
$24.06
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
28 November 2022
Summary
The Terrible Beauty: Selected Stories of Akutagawa
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashom…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241573693 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241573696 |
| Series: | Little Clothbound Classics |
| Author: | Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 28 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 233g |
| Dimensions: | 167mm x 117mm x 23mm |
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One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. The elegantly spare style has a truly spine-tingling brilliance
One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. The elegantly spare style has a truly spine-tingling brilliance – Haruki MurakamiExtravagance and horror are in his work, but never in the style, which is always crystal-clear – Jorge Luis Borges
About The Author
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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.
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