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Rashomon and seventeen other stories

Translated by Jay Rubin

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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.

notes: Introduction by Haruki Murakami.
subjects: Short stories, Japanese, Translations into English
genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140449709
OCLC number: 318372260
publisher: Penguin Books, 2006, 2009
publication place: New York
japanese publication date: Rashomon: 1914
english publication date: 2006
document type: Book
description: li, 268 p. ; 20 cm.