Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Broschiertes Buch

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Mitarbeit: Murakami, Haruki;Übersetzung: Rubin, Jay

Beschreibung

Ryunosuke 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. This work features stories such as "Rashomon", "In a Bamboo Grove", "The Nose", "O-Gin", "Loyalty", "Death Register", "The Life of a Stupid Man" and "Spinning Gears".

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 76700
• Penguin Classics Deluxe edition
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 143mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780143039846
• ISBN-10: 0143039849
• Artikelnr.: 21861851