The Essential Akutagawa
Subtitle:  Rashomon, Hell Screen, Cogwheels, A Fool's Life and Other Short Fiction
Contributors: Seiji M. Lippit (Editor)
Publisher: Marsilio Publishers
Published: April 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781568860619
Subjects: Film & Video - General; Short Stories (single author); Fiction - General; Fiction; Performing Arts; History; Asia - General; General
Description: "The stories of Akutagawa - like those of his peer and contemporary Franz Kafka - are intricate explorations of peculiar junctures of modern cosmopolitan subjectivity. Yet Kafka, though clearly positioned on the borders of dominant Western culture, still writes from within it. Akutagawa's singular difference lies in a set of confrontations that can be said to be truly alien.

Eastern and Western, Ancient and Modern, Masculine and Feminine collapse in his extraordinarily innovative and lucid prose."--BOOK JACKET.