The Essential Akutagawa

The Essential Akutagawa
Author: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Publisher: Marsilio Publishers
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Eastern and Western, Ancient and Modern, Masculine and Feminine collapse in his extraordinarily innovative and lucid prose."--BOOK JACKET.

Murder in the Age of Enlightenment

Murder in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Ryonosuke Akutagawa
Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2024-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1805330292

Madness, murder and obsession: a stylishly original and fantastical collection of stories from an iconic Japanese writer A collection of the 7 essential Akutagawa short stories, in a vivid and elegant translation – the perfect introduction to this master of prose “A born short-story writer. . . one never tires of reading and re-reading his best works” – Haruki Murukami From a nobleman's court, to the garden of paradise, to a lantern festival in Tokyo, these 7 shrot stories offer dazzling glimpses into moments of madness, murder and obsession. A talented yet spiteful painter is given over to depravity in pursuit of artistic brilliance. In the depth of hell, a robber spies a single spider's thread being lowered towards him. When a body is found in an isolated bamboo grove, a kaleidoscopic account of violence and desire begins to unfold. These are short stories from an unparalleled master of the form. Sublimely crafted and stylishly original, Akutagawa's writing is shot through with a fantastical sensibility. This collection, in a vivid translation by Bryan Karetnyk, brings together the most essential works from this iconic Japanese writer. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: outstanding classic storytelling from around the world, in a stylishly original series design. From newly rediscovered gems to fresh translations of the world’s greatest authors, this series includes such authors as Stefan Zweig, Hermann Hesse, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Gaito Gazdanov.

Hell Screen ; Cogwheels ; A Fool's Life

Hell Screen ; Cogwheels ; A Fool's Life
Author: 芥川龍之介
Publisher: Eridanos Library
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1987
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

These three stories are experimental works by one of the most important early-twentieth century Japanese authors. Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is best known for his stories derived from historical incidents or legends; for example, "Rashomon", the basis of the famous film.

Mandarins

Mandarins
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher: Archipelago
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-03-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1935744127

Prefiguring the vital modernist voices of the Western literary canon, Akutagawa writes with a trenchant psychological precision that exposes the shifting traditions and ironies of early twentieth-century Japan and reveals his own strained connection to it. These stories are moving glimpses into a cast of characters at odds with the society around them, singular portraits that soar effortlessly toward the universal. "What good is intelligence if you cannot discover a useful melancholy?" Akutagawa once mused. Both piercing intelligence and "useful melancholy" buoy this remarkable collection. Mandarins contains three stories published in English for the first time: "An Evening Conversation," "An Enlightened Husband," and "Winter."

Hell Screen ("Jigoku Hen") and Other Stories

Hell Screen (
Author: 芥川龍之介
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1971
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

There can be no doubt that [Akutagawa] had more individuality than any other writer of his time and has left in Japanese literature a mass of artistic work, often grotesque and curious, that, while it undoubtedly angers the proletarian experimenters who now hold the stage and fight with lusty pens and a highly developed class consciousness against all that he stood for, will continue to live as long as men go on treasuring the fancies their fellows from time to time set down with care on paper.--Glen W. Shaw

Rashomon

Rashomon
Author: Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2018-08-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781726229739

Rashomon By Akutagawa Ryunosuke This was not only lust, as you might think. At that time if I'd had no other desire than lust, I'd surely not have minded knocking her down and running away. Then I wouldn't have stained my sword with his blood. But the moment I gazed at her face in the dark grove, I decided not to leave there without killing him

Topographies of Japanese Modernism

Topographies of Japanese Modernism
Author: Seiji M. Lippit
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0231125305

Lippit offers the first book-length study in English of Japanese modernist fiction from the 1920s to the 1930s. Through close readings of four leading figures of this movement--Akutagawa, Yokomitsu, Kawabata, and Hayashi--Lippit aims to establish a theoretical and historical framework for the analysis of Japanese modernism.

A Study Guide for Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "In a Grove"

A Study Guide for Ryunosuke Akutagawa's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 37
Release:
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410349357

A Study Guide for Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "In a Grove," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Rethinking Japanese Modernism

Rethinking Japanese Modernism
Author: Roy Starrs
Publisher: Global Oriental
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2011-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004211306

Edited by Roy Starrs, this collection of essays by an international group of leading Japan scholars presents new research and thinking on Japanese modernism, a topic that has been increasingly recognized in recent years to be key to an understanding of contemporary Japanese culture and society. By adopting an open, multidisciplinary, and transnational approach to this multifaceted topic, the book sheds new light both on the specific achievements and on the often-unexpected interrelationships of the writers, artists and thinkers who helped to define the Japanese version of modernism and modernity. Specific topics addressed include the literary modernism of major writers such as Akutagawa, Kawabata, Kajii, Miyazawa, and Murakami, avant-garde modernism in painting, music, theatre, and in the performance art of Yoko Ono, and the everyday modernism of popular culture and of new urban activities such as shopping and sports.