A collectible hardcover edition of the best stories by the father of the Japanese short storyâincluding the two that inspired Kurosawa's classic samurai film about the subjectivity of truthâfeaturing an introduction...
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.
2018 Reprint of 1952 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Whether...
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...
Ever since his death in 1927, Ryunosuke Akutagawa has been hailed as one of the greatest short story writers in world literature. Most famous for his story Rashomon and the Kurosawa movie it inspired, Akutagawaâs wide range of fiction...
Ryünosuke Akutagawa 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"...
Es sabido que la diferencia entre el cuento y la novela no radica en la cantidad sino en la calidad. Cuentistas como Poe o Merimée fascinaron a sus lectores con la brillantez de sus estilos. Akutagawa es uno de los contados representantes de la...