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Rashomon And Seventeen Other Stories

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japans foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery cynicism beauty and wild humour. Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" inspired Kurosawas 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."
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Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japans foremost stylists
- a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery cynicism beauty & wild humour. Rashomon" & " In a Bamboo Grove" inspired Kurosawas magnificent film & depict a past in which morality is turned upside down while tales such as " The Nose" "O-Gin" & " Loyalty" paint a rich & imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns & priests vagrants & peasants. & in later works such as " Death Register" " The Life of a Stupid Man" & " Spinning Gears" Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect revealing his intense melancholy & terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories."

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Japan - An island in east Asia
Humour - Something either verbal of physical that provides amusement and can provoke laughter
Bamboo - A long pole like tough wooden plant.

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