The Life of a Stupid Man
$16.42
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
24 February 2015
Summary
A Dewdrop, a Flash: The Fleeting Life
‘What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.’
Autobiographical stories from one of Japan’s masters of modernist story-telling.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141397726 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141397721 |
| Series: | Penguin Little Black Classics |
| Author: | Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Edition: | 56th |
| Release Date: | 24 February 2015 |
| Weight: | 173g |
| Dimensions: | 160mm x 111mm x 5mm |
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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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