Three Japanese Short Stories
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Three Japanese Short Stories

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Publisher
Penguin UK
Pages
64
Language
English
Published
2018

Overview

<p><i>'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'</i><br><br>Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's <i>Behind the Prison</i>, Uno's <i>Closet LLB</i> and Akutagawa's deeply macabre <i>General Kim. </i><br><br>Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.</p>

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