Mandarins - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa & Charles DeWolf

Mandarins

von Ryūnosuke Akutagawa & Charles DeWolf

  • Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2007-07-16
  • Genre: Kurzgeschichten
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Beschreibung

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."

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