Rashomon and Other Stories

Name: Rashomon and Other Stories
Brand: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
SKU: 9781774641866
Price: 6.14 GBP
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by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Title:

Author:

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

48 pages

Publisher:

Must Have Books

ISBN-13:

9781774641866

EAN:

9781774641866

Classifications:

Special Features

Weight (g):

204

Dimensions (mm):

151 x 229 x 6

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£6.14

2 copies in stock

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Description

Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Akutagawa's disturbing tale of seven people recounts the same incident from shockingly different perspectives.Rashomon tells the chilling story of the killing of a samurai through the testimony of witnesses, including the spirit of the murdered man. The fable-like Yam Gruel is an account of desire and humiliation, but one in which the reader's sympathy is thoroughly unsettled. And in The Martyr, a beloved orphan raised by Jesuit priests is exiled when he refuses to admit that he made a local girl pregnant. He regains their love and respect only at the price of his life. All six tales in the collection show Akutagawa as a master storyteller and an exciting voice of modern Japanese literature.