A collectible hardcover edition of the stories by the father of the Japanese short story—including the two that inspired Kurosawa's classic samurai film about the subjectivity of truth—featuring an introduction by Haruki Murakami.
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is Japan's famous stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humor. "Rashōmon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" inspired Akira 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 . 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 madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) was a short story writer, poet, and essayist, as well as the early Japanese modernists translated into English. He was born in Tokyo and began writing for student publications at the age of ten. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1916 with a degree in English literature and worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1919. His mother experienced a mental health break just months after his birth, and Akutagawa was plagued by a fear of inherited insanity all his life. He ended his own life at the age of 35.
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