Author : Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2018-08-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781726229739
Rashomon By Akutagawa Ryunosuke This was not only lust, as you might think. At that time if I'd had no other desire than lust, I'd surely not have minded knocking her down and running away. Then I wouldn't have stained my sword with his blood. But the moment I gazed at her face in the dark grove, I decided not to leave there without killing him
Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141902876
Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. ‘Rashömon’ and ‘In a Bamboo Grove’ inspired Kurosawa’s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as ‘The Nose’, ‘O-Gin’ and ‘Loyalty’ paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as ‘Death Register’, ‘The Life of a Stupid Man’ and ‘Spinning Gears’, Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.
Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 29,46 MB
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 014139773X
'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. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927). Akutagawa's Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories is also available in Penguin Classics.
Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935744127
Prefiguring the vital modernist voices of the Western literary canon, Akutagawa writes with a trenchant psychological precision that exposes the shifting traditions and ironies of early twentieth-century Japan and reveals his own strained connection to it. These stories are moving glimpses into a cast of characters at odds with the society around them, singular portraits that soar effortlessly toward the universal. "What good is intelligence if you cannot discover a useful melancholy?" Akutagawa once mused. Both piercing intelligence and "useful melancholy" buoy this remarkable collection. Mandarins contains three stories published in English for the first time: "An Evening Conversation," "An Enlightened Husband," and "Winter."
Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2024-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 655894538X
"Rashomon and Other Stories" has had a profound impact on both Japanese and international literature. The stories "Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" were famously adapted into the 1950 film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, which brought Akutagawa's work to a global audience and won numerous awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Akutagawa's exploration of the human condition, his innovative narrative techniques, and his ability to capture the complexities of moral and existential dilemmas have cemented his place as one of Japan's greatest writers. His works continue to be studied and appreciated for their literary merit and their insights into the human psyche.
Author : Victor Santos
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1630088986
Victor Santos (Polar, Violent Love) writes and illustrates a crime and mystery story inspired by Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s tales featuring the heroic commissioner Heigo Kobayashi When the body of a skilled samurai is found along the road to Yamashina in feudal Japan, the search begins for his killer. Detective Heigo Kobayashi takes the case but finds only dead-end clues and no firsthand witnesses.
Author : Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Ingrid J. Parker
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2002-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312287986
Award-winning writer Parker brings ancient Japan to life in a tale of blackmail and murder among high-ranking nobles. 10 illustrations.
Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935548301
3 Strange Tales presents new translations of this classic Japanese author's most well-known stories: Rashomon; A Christian Death; the never-before-published-in-English story, Agni; and a bonus story, In a Grove.
Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Random House
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0241620309
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. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. 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 Rashomon, showcases the terrible beauty, cynicism, sublime pain and absurd humour of his writing. 'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. The elegantly spare style has a truly spine-tingling brilliance' - Haruki Murakami
