{"product_id":"rashomon-and-seventeen-other-stories-by-ryunosuke-akutagawa","title":"Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780140449709\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePenguin Classics, 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 268 Pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe best stories by the father of the Japanese short story—including the two that inspired Kurosawa's classic samurai film about the subjectivity of truth—featuring\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ean introduction by Haruki Murakami\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRyünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. \"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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IH PENTZ BOOKSELLERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46580665319586,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/816sFRCmvTL._SL1500.jpg?v=1770714814","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/rashomon-and-seventeen-other-stories-by-ryunosuke-akutagawa","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}