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Patient X : the case-book of Ryهunosuke Akutagawa

Peace, David, author

Overview

\"Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryknosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story \"In the Grove\" served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film RashMmon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own obsession with Akutagawa, David Peace delves into the known facts and events of the writer's life and inner world--birth to a mother who was mentally ill and a father who died shortly thereafter; his own battles with mental illness; his complicated reaction to the beginnings of modernization and Westernization of Japan; his short but prolific writing career; his suicide at the age of thirty-five--and creates a stunningly atmospheric and deeply moving fiction that tells its own story of a singularly brilliant mind\" -- Amazon.

• Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
• Subject: Akutagawa, Ryknosuke Fiction. / Authors, Japanese Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780525521778, 0525521771

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6066.E116 P38 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE