{"product_id":"rashomon-and-seventeen-other-stories-hardcover","title":"Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRyunosuke Akutagawa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHaruki Murakami\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eJay Rubin\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collectible hardcover edition of the best stories by the father of the Japanese short story--including the two that inspired Kurosawa's classic samurai film about the subjectivity of truth--featuring an introduction by Haruki Murakami \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Vitae Edition \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRyūnosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists--a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humor. \"Rashōmon\" and \"In a Bamboo Grove\" inspired Akira 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenguin Vitae--loosely translated as \"Penguin of one's life\"--is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRyunosuke Akutagawa\u003c\/b\u003e (1892-1927) was a short story writer, poet, and essayist, as well as one of the first Japanese modernists translated into English. He was born in Tokyo and began writing for student publications at the age of ten. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1916 with a degree in English literature and worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1919. His mother experienced a mental health break just months after his birth, and Akutagawa was plagued by a fear of inherited insanity all his life. He ended his own life at the age of 35. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJay Rubin\u003c\/b\u003e (translator) has translated several of Haruki Murakami's works into English and is the author of \u003ci\u003eHaruki Murakami and the Music of Words \u003c\/i\u003eand the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been a professor of Japanese literature at Harvard University and the University of Washington. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHaruki Murakami\u003c\/b\u003e (introduction) is one of Japan's most admired and widely read novelists, whose work has been translated into more than fifty languages. His more than twenty books include \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Kafka on the Shore\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Norwegian Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Men Without Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKilling Commendatore. \u003c\/i\u003eAmong his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include the Nobel Prize winners J. M. Coetzee and V. S. Naipaul. Born in Kyoto in 1949, Murakami now lives near Tokyo.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764579500320,"sku":"9780143137887","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/53b7e52c82c43978405315973e8b7de5.webp?v=1780252726","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/rashomon-and-seventeen-other-stories-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}