Mandarins: Stories
Ryunosuke Akutagawa [Akutagawa, Ryunosuke]Prefiguring the vital modernist voices of the Western literary canon, Akutagawa writes with a trenchant psychological precision that exposes the shifting traditions and ironies of early twentieth-century Japan and reveals his own strained connection to it. These stories are moving glimpses into a cast of characters at odds with the society around them, singular portraits that soar effortlessly toward the universal. "What good is intelligence if you cannot discover a useful melancholy?" Akutagawa once mused. Both piercing intelligence and "useful melancholy" buoy this remarkable collection. Mandarins contains three stories published in English for the first time: "An Evening Conversation," "An Enlightened Husband," and "Winter."
Կատեգորիաներ:
Տարի:
2007
Հրատարակչություն:
Steerforth Press
Լեզու:
english
ISBN 10:
0977857603
ISBN 13:
9780977857609
Ֆայլ:
EPUB, 1.65 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2007