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Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature, and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon, showcases the terrible beauty, cynicism, sublime pain and absurd humour of his writing.
‘One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. The elegantly spare style has a truly spine-tingling brilliance’ – Haruki Murakami
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Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature, and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon, showcases the terrible beauty, cynicism, sublime pain and absurd humour of his writing.
‘One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. The elegantly spare style has a truly spine-tingling brilliance’ – Haruki Murakami
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