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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780143039846 (0143039849)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 268
Edition language: English
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BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it
2.0 Rashomon
DNF @ 39% These stories are not bad but I just can't muster any real enthusiasm for them. It is not helped by the stories being unconneced and by themselves not being great examples of the short story format. Of course, they were not written as short stories in the Western literary sense. It's...
simmo
simmo rated it
4.0 Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
An interesting collection of short stories,'in the bamboo grove', 'hell screen' and 'O-Gin' are excellent short stories of moral. Enjoyed a lot. I confess I was interested in getting to the autobiographical ending of the book since Akutagawa famously ended his own life and his own insight into his d...
Parrish Lantern's Casebook
Parrish Lantern's Casebook rated it
5.0 Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Rashomon & 17 other stories Ryunosuke Akutugawa is generally regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story" of which he wrote approximately a hundred, before taking his own life at the age of 35, he also has Japan's most famous Literary prize named after him (Akutagawa Prize) . Born in Tokyo ...
brilliant years
brilliant years rated it
4.0 [Review] Rashomon
Amazing short stories. This was the first I read of Akutagawa and I really loved it.My only regret is that I didn't get the longer "Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories". This particular Tuttle edition also has quite a lot of typing errors...
Calyre
Calyre rated it
3.0 Rashomon and Other Stories
Just read Rashomon ;)
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