{"product_id":"9780140449709-rashomon-and-seventeen-other-stories","title":"Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten by Ryunosuke Akutagawa - one of Japan's foremost stylists and a modernist master whose short stories are marked by imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. His other works include: \"Rashomon\"; \"In a Bamboo Grove\"; \"The Nose\"; \"O-Gin\"; \"Loyalty\"; \"Death Register\"; \"The Life of a Stupid Man\"; and \"Spinning Gears\".\u003cbr\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. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31654222397537,"sku":"9780140449709","price":9.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36017138_e2e85c6f-09a6-4d79-ae4a-5b84a0229acb.jpg?v=1757558152","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780140449709-rashomon-and-seventeen-other-stories","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}