‘Rashömon’ and ‘In a Bamboo Grove’ inspired 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 by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. 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 terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.
- Autor: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Kategoria: literatura piękna
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 9780140449709
- Data wydania: 2009-03-03
- Liczba stron: 320
- Tłumaczenie: Jay Rubin
- Ocena: 7,7
- Wydawnictwo: Penguin Classics
