# Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

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- Authors: [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa](https://www.bookquiver.com/ryunosuke-akutagawa)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-970-9
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2006-03-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Ryünosuke 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. '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.