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Rashomon and Other Stories Paperback - 2007
by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Introduction by Howard Hibbett; Kojima Takashi (Translator)
Summary
This collection of short stories includes "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; and "Kesa and Morito", 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 AkutagawaÆs 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 precarious balance of illusion and reality."—Howard Hibbett, from the Introduction of Rashomon and Other Stories
"There are enough Swiftian touches in Akutagawa to show his hatred of stupidity, greed, hypocrisy and the rising jingoism of the day. But AkutagawaÆs 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 precarious balance of illusion and reality."—Howard Hibbett, from the Introduction of Rashomon and Other Stories
From the rear cover
Rashomon-An atmosphere of decadence in early Kyoto. A ghoul at work shocks a would-be thief into something like honesty.
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- Title Rashomon and Other Stories
- Author Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Introduction by Howard Hibbett; Kojima Takashi (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tuttle Publishing, Hong Kong
- Date 2007-11-15
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9784805308820 / 4805308826
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.12 x 0.4 in (20.32 x 13.00 x 1.02 cm)
- Reading level 1030
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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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 introspectionàWhat 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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