| Rashomon and Other Stories Contributor(s): Akutagawa, Ryunosuke (Author), Hibbett, Howard (Introduction by), Takashi, Kojima (Translator) |
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ISBN: 4805308826 ISBN-13: 9784805308820 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: Rashomon-An atmosphere of decadence in early Kyoto. A ghoul at work shocks a would-be thief into something like honesty. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1030 |
| Series: Tuttle Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.12" W x 8" (0.30 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 This collection of six short stories, most of which have never been translated before, 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 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 precarious balance of illusion and reality.--Howard Hibbett, from the Introduction of Rashomon and Other Stories Classic Japanese stories include:
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