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    (By Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)

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    Author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “Book Descriptions: This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the source for the movie Rashōmon to his later, more autobiographical writings.

    Ryūnosuke 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. ‘Rashōmon’ 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.

    A WORLD IN DECAY
    - Rashōmon
    - In a Bamboo Grove
    - The Nose
    - Dragon: The Old Potter's Tale
    - The Spider Thread
    - Hell Screen
    UNDER THE SWORD
    - Dr. Ogata Ryōsai: Memorandum
    - O-Gin
    - Loyalty
    MODERN TRAGICOMEDY
    - The Story of a Head That Fell Off
    - Green Onions
    - Horse Legs
    AKUTAGAWA'S OWN STORY
    - Daidōji Shinsuke: The Early Years
    - The Writer's Craft
    - The Baby's Sickness
    - Death Register
    - The Life of a Stupid Man
    - Spinning Gears

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