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Rashomon, : and other stories. Translated by Takashi Kojima; introd. by Howard Hibbet.

By:

Akutagawa, Ryunosuke

Contributor(s):

Hibbet, Howard

Publication details: Tokyo, Rutland, Vt., : C. E. Tuttle Co. , 1952.Description: 95 p. ; 19 cmISBN:

9780804814577

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Short stories

DDC classification:

FIC AKU

LOC classification:

PZ3.A3195 Ras2

Summary: "There are enough Swiftian touches in Akutagawa to show his hatred of stupidity, greed, hypocrisy, and the rising jingoism of the day. But Akutagawa's artistic integrity kept him from joining his contemporaries in easy social criticism or naive introspection. What he did was to question the values of his society, dramatize the complexities of human psychology, and study, with a Zen taste for paradox, the precarious balance of illusion and reality." Howard Hibbet

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Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC AKU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		067037

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"There are enough Swiftian touches in Akutagawa to show his hatred of stupidity, greed, hypocrisy, and the rising jingoism of the day. But Akutagawa's artistic integrity kept him from joining his contemporaries in easy social criticism or naive introspection. What he did was to question the values of his society, dramatize the complexities of human psychology, and study, with a Zen taste for paradox, the precarious balance of illusion and reality." Howard Hibbet

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