Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan’s cultural upheaval. Rashomon tells the chilling story of the killing of a samurai through the testimony of witnesses, including the spirit of the murdered man. The fable-like Yam Gruel is an account of desire and humiliation, but one in which the reader’s sympathy is thoroughly unsettled. And in The Martyr, a beloved orphan raised by Jesuit priests is exiled when he refuses to admit that he made a local girl pregnant. He regains their love and respect only at the price of his life. All six tales in the collection show Akutagawa as a master storyteller and an exciting voice of modern Japanese literature.
Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 108 ● ISBN 9781773232522 ● Dateigröße 0.2 MB ● Verlag Upfront ● Erscheinungsjahr 2018 ● Ausgabe 1 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 6686093 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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