Three Japanese Short Stories: Akutagawa and Others (Penguin Modern) - Softcover

Akutagawa, Ryunosuke; Nagai, Kafu; Uno, Chiyo

 
9780241339749: Three Japanese Short Stories: Akutagawa and Others (Penguin Modern)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 024133974X ISBN 13: 9780241339749
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2018

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'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.

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa was a short-story writer, poet and essayist, and one of the first Japanese modernists translated into English. He was born in Tokyo in 1892, and began writing for student publications at the age of ten. He graduated from Tokyo University with an English Literature degree and worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1919. His mother had suffered a mental breakdown shortly after his birth and he was plagued by fear of inherited insanity all his life. He killed himself in 1927.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
024133974X
ISBN 13 
9780241339749
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
64
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