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Murder in the Age of Enlightenment - Couverture souple

Akutagawa, Ryunosuke

 
9781782275558: Murder in the Age of Enlightenment
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 178227555X ISBN 13 : 9781782275558
Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2020

Synopsis

A stylishly original collection of seven newly translated stories from the iconic Japanese writer

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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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Pushkin Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
178227555X
ISBN 13 
9781782275558
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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