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In Dreams: The Very Short Stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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Description:In Dreams brings together fifty-one works for the first time in English by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, the “father of the Japanese short story” and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.Deftly translated by Ryan Choi, these stories and vignettes (plus two short plays) all have radical brevity in common, demonstrating that Akutagawa was an early and prescient master of what we now call “flash” fiction and non-fiction. With a striking economy of means, the author gives us vivid, eccentric, feeling characters, young and elderly, learned and unpolished, urban and rural. Akutagawa’s observations and notes – on dreams, on being impersonated, on mountain towns, winter nights, university life and, poignantly, the Great Kantō Earthquake – are as rich and evocative as his stories, with which they share a mesmerising quality.First published in Japan between 1914 and 1927 (some posthumously), these works have been overlooked in favour of Akutagawa’s longer tales, which have formed the basis of his reputation in the West. In translating them, Choi rounds out our understanding of this master stylist.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In Dreams: The Very Short Stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. To get started finding In Dreams: The Very Short Stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 176

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Paper + Ink

Release: 2023

ISBN: 1911475568

Description: In Dreams brings together fifty-one works for the first time in English by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, the “father of the Japanese short story” and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.Deftly translated by Ryan Choi, these stories and vignettes (plus two short plays) all have radical brevity in common, demonstrating that Akutagawa was an early and prescient master of what we now call “flash” fiction and non-fiction. With a striking economy of means, the author gives us vivid, eccentric, feeling characters, young and elderly, learned and unpolished, urban and rural. Akutagawa’s observations and notes – on dreams, on being impersonated, on mountain towns, winter nights, university life and, poignantly, the Great Kantō Earthquake – are as rich and evocative as his stories, with which they share a mesmerising quality.First published in Japan between 1914 and 1927 (some posthumously), these works have been overlooked in favour of Akutagawa’s longer tales, which have formed the basis of his reputation in the West. In translating them, Choi rounds out our understanding of this master stylist.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In Dreams: The Very Short Stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. To get started finding In Dreams: The Very Short Stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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