Hell Screen

Hell Screen
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin
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NZ$ 20.80
Hardback
h167 x 120mm - 224pg
25 Aug 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780241573693
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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-SmithAkutagawa 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 Extravagance and horror are in his work, but never in the style, which is always crystal-clear -- Jorge Luis Borges
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.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241573693
Published: 25 Aug 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 167mm
Width: 120mm
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 237g
Pages: 224

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