{"product_id":"rashomon-and-seventeen-other-stories","title":"Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA unique new selection, bringing together Akutagawa's undisputed masterpieces and several less well known tales, never before translated into English.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRyünosuke 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53560933089594,"sku":"9780140449709","price":27.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0868\/6449\/4906\/files\/9780140449709.jpg?v=1780451978","url":"https:\/\/titlemusicfilmbooks.com\/products\/rashomon-and-seventeen-other-stories","provider":"TITLE ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}