Three Japanese Short Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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Through brilliant, highly-praised translations by Lane Dunlop, The Best Japanese Short Stories offers fascinating glimpses of a society embracing change while holding tenaciously onto the past. Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from. Gishu Nakayama's look at an out-of-place prostitute recovering at a hot-spring resort in 'Autumn Wind' Three Japanese Short Stories by Rynosuke Akutagawa. 'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim.Junichi Watanabe's chilling assessment of alienation and social dislocation in 'Invitation to Suicide'.Fumiko Hayashi's unabashed exploration of female sexuality in 'Borneo Diamond'.Ango Sakaguchi's heartening celebration of postwar chaos in 'One Woman and the War'.

Kafu Nagai's bittersweet portrait of a privileged family's expiring existence in 'The Fox'.

Internationally renowned writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Junichi Watanabe are joined by three notable women writers whose works have not yet received sufficient attention-Kanoko Okamoto, Fumiko Hayashi and Yumiko Kurahashi. An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)įourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation's changing social landscapes.

Three Japanese Short Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa