Rashomon: And Other Stories - Brossura

Akutagawa, Ryunosuke

Brossura

ISBN 10: 4805308826 ISBN 13: 9784805308820

Casa editrice: Tuttle Pub, 2007

Riassunto

The stories included in this classic collection include: "In a Grove", a psychologically sophisticated tale about murder, rape, and suicide; "Rashomon", the story of a thief scared into honesty by an encounter with a ghoul; "The Martyr" tells the story of silent suffering in Christian Nagasaki; and "Kesa and Morito" is the story of man driven to kill someone he doesn't hate by a lover whom he doesn't love. "There are enough Swiftian touches in Akutagawa to show his hatred of stupidity, greed, hypocrisy, and the rising jingoism of the day. But Akutagawa's artistic integrity kept him from joining his contemporaries in the easy social criticism or naive introspection...What he did was question the values of his society, dramatize the complexities of human psychology, and study, with a Zen taste for paradox, the balance of illusion and reality." - Howard Hibbett.

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-There are enough Swiftian touches in Akutagawa to show his hatred of stupidity, greed, hypocrisy, and the rising jingoism of the day. But Akutagawa's artistic integrity kept him from joining his contemporaries in the easy social criticism or naive introspection...What he did was question the values of his society, dramatize the complexities of human psychology, and study, with a Zen taste for paradox, the balance of illusion and reality.- --Howard Hibbett, professor emeritus of Japanese literature, Harvard University

-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.- --The New York Times Book Review

"There are enough Swiftian touches in Akutagawa to show his hatred of stupidity, greed, hypocrisy, and the rising jingoism of the day. But Akutagawa's artistic integrity kept him from joining his contemporaries in the easy social criticism or naive introspection...What he did was question the values of his society, dramatize the complexities of human psychology, and study, with a Zen taste for paradox, the balance of illusion and reality." --Howard Hibbett, professor emeritus of Japanese literature, Harvard University

"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." --The New York Times Book Review

L'autore:

ryunosuke Akutagawa was the author of over 100 short stories. Described as one of the best-read men of his generation, he re degree in English Literature at Tokyo imperial University and published translations by Anatole France and W. b. Yeats. Two of his short stories from this collection became the basis of the award-winning movie rashomon by famed director Akira Kurosawa. in 1927, he committed suicide at the age of thirty-five.

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• Editore: Tuttle Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 4805308826
• ISBN 13: 9784805308820
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 123