The Essential Akutagawa: Rashomon, Hell Screen, Cogwheels, a Fool's Life and Other Short Fiction by Seiji M. Lippit, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jorge Luis Borges

The Essential Akutagawa: Rashomon, Hell Screen, Cogwheels, a Fool's Life and Other Short Fiction

Seiji M. Lippit, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jorge Luis Borges

207 pages • first pub 1915 (editions)

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Akutagawa's voice is one of the most remarkable in modern Japanese fiction: an acutely intelligent mind, a humiliated soul, engaging as readily with Baudelaire as with Confucius. These narratives and vignettes -- some having received little attent...

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