Pushkin Collection: Murder in the Age of Enlightenment

Essential Stories

Pushkin Collection: Murder in the Age of Enlightenment
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Bryan Karetnyk
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Paperback
h165 x 120mm - 208pg
3 Dec 2020 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781782275558
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The stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of the darkness of our desires. From an isolated bamboo grove, to a lantern festival in Tokyo, to the Emperor' s court, they offer glimpses into moments of madness, murder, and obsession. Vividly translated by Bryan Karetnyk, they unfold in elegant, sometimes laconic, always gripping prose. Akutagawa' s stories are characterised by their stylish originality; they are stories to be read again and again.

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Flight, The
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Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz
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Last and the First, The
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Love and Youth: Essential Stories
Man in a Hurry, The
Montaigne
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories
New Sorrows of Young W, The
Odessa Stories
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Poems to Night
Red Cavalry
Rendezvous in Venice
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One never tires of reading and re-reading his work. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer. - Haruki Murakami The quintessential writer of his era. - David Pearce Extravagance and horror and in his work but never in his style, which is always crystal-clear. - Jorge Luis Borges He was both traditional and experimental and always compelling and fearless. . . There is no writer quite like him. - Howard Norman
Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan' s leading literary figures in the Taisho period in Japan. Regarded as the father of the Japanese short story, he produced over 150 in his short lifetime and is renowned as a pre-eminent prose stylist and modernist whose work ranges from the fantastical and supernatural to the psychological and formally unconventional. Haunted by the fear that he would inherit his mother' s madness, his mental health deteriorated rapidly towards the end of his life and he committed suicide aged 35 by taking an overdose of barbital.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781782275558
Published: 3 Dec 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 165mm
Width: 120mm
Pages: 208

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