Böcker av Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Paris, New York, London och Tokyo - fyra världsmetropoler, fyra noveller som tar dig med på en resa i både tid och rum. Städerna är skildrade av några av våra största klassiker. Följ med till Honoré de Balzacs omsorgsfullt beskrivna Paris och dess...

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "den japanske novellens fader", har varit en stor inspirationskälla för många japanska författare, däribland Haruki Murakami. Akutagawa tog livet av sig 1927, endast 35 år gammal, med avskedsorden "utsuddad oro&...

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove' inspired Kurosawa's magnificen...

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'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birt...

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Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. Rash mon and In a Bamboo Grove inspired Kurosawa s magnificent fi...

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'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.'Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthd...

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'He had the Ten Kings of Hell and their minions over in one small corner, and everything else - the entire screen - was enveloped in a firestorm so terrible you thought the swirling flames were going to melt the mountain of Sabres and the Forest o...

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. 'Rashoemon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove' inspired Kurosawa's magnifice...

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10 Selected Short Stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke Large Print with Japanese language Good for Japanese Learners & Fans !

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The Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore described as a scaly, child-sized being with a face like a tiger and a sharp, pointed beak. In the hands of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, one man's journey to 'Kappaland' becomes the vehicle for a critique of ...

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This collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon, made famous Ryunosuke Akutagawa's disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives.

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Ever since his death in 1927, Ryunosuke Akutagawa has been hailed as one of the greatest short story writers in world literature. Most famous for his story Rashomon and the Kurosawa movie it inspired, Akutagawa's wide range of fiction is beautiful...

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Stunning tales from master storyteller: superbly nuanced prose, subtly exposing the human psyche. Borges loved him.

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One of Penguin Classics' most popular translations—now also in our elegant black spine dressRyünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cyni...

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"e;Clear-eyed glimpses of human behavior in the extremities of poverty, stupidity, greed, vanity Story-telling of an unconventional sort, with most of the substance beneath the shining, enameled surface."e; The New York Times Book Review W...

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From the literary giant of Japan, who is often referred to as the "Godfather of the Japanese short story", and after whom the most coveted literary prize of Japan is named, the Akutagawa Prize, comes this collection of three of his great...

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Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japans cultural upheaval. Rashomon tells the chilling story of the killing of a samurai through the testimony of witnesses, including the spir...

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'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' Haruki Murakami The stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of the darkness of our desires. From an is...

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A stylishly original collection of seven newly translated stories from the iconic Japanese writer From a nobleman's court, to the garden of paradise, to a lantern festival in Tokyo, these stories offer dazzling glimpses into moments of madness, mu...

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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 connecti...

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This book contains several tables of HTML content that will make reading easier. The first table of contents lists all the titles included in this volume. This book contains the following works, classified by author:In a Grove by RyA nosuke Akutag...

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This book contains several tables of HTML content that will make reading easier. The first table of contents lists all the titles included in this volume. This book contains the following works, classified by author:In a Grove by RyA nosuke Akutag...

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Mit dem Sammelband "Rashomon", 1917 veröffentlicht, setzte sich Akutagawa als Schriftsteller durch. Bis zu seinem Freitod 1927 verfaßte er neben Essays und Lyrik etwa 150 Kurzgeschichten, Erzählungen und Novellen, mit den...

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