'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim.
· jedyna książka, która łączy biografię Murakamiego z analizą jego dzieł · fan Murakamiego i tłumacz jego dzieł na język angielski napisał pasjonującą książkę, w której ujawnił elementy biograficzne zawarte w powieściach japońskiego pisarza · autor wnikliwie śledził karierę Murakamiego,
Japan's modernist master explores family, art and the fear of madness in exquisite autobiographical pieces and a short story.
‘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.
She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off. One rainy Tokyo night, a waitress’s uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when
