In Dreams
The Very Short Stories Of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
$21.35
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
6 July 2023
Summary
Deftly translated by Ryan Choi, these stories and vignettes (plus two short plays) all have radical brevity in common, demonstrating that Akutagawa was an early and prescient master of what we now call “flash” fiction and non-fiction. With a striking economy of means, the author gives us vivid, eccentric, feeling characters, young and elderly, learned and unpolished, urban and rural. Akutagawa’s observations and notes — on dreams, on being impersonated, on mountain towns, winter nights, unive…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911475569 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1911475568 |
| Author: | Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Ryan Choi |
| Publisher: | Momentum Books |
| Imprint: | Paper + Ink |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 217mm x 135mm |
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“A writer of exceptional talent.” TLS
About The Author
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa was a Japanese short-story writer, poet and essayist. He died only at thirty-five, from suicide, but is regarded as the “father of the Japanese short story”. Japan’s premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named in his honor.
Ryan Choi is an editor at the literary magazine AGNI. His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, The New Criterion, The New Republic, Raritan, The Yale Review and other publications. This is his first book of translation.
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